Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Does the minister recall these remarks of the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, Senator Abetz, who represents him in the Senate? When asked the same question about regulation 8.5(1)(c) he said:

No matter how it is described, it is ... prohibited content. Therefore we could call it ‘doing the work of angels’ or all sorts of wonderful things but, at the end of the day, the regulation is very clear.

Does the minister agree that, under the government’s legislation, leave to attend trade union training is prohibited content under the government’s legislation?

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