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

I have asked them. Did your office, or did it not, contact the Office of Workplace Services after you had received this report and suggest to the office that further work might be done because a subsequent report might suit your political convenience better than the report they handed to you in May 2006? That report said in its conclusions and recommendations:

... the investigation leads to a conclusion that the “dominant” reason for Cowra Abattoirs conduct ... was to make the operation efficient and to ultimately secure the financial viability of the company ... Thus there does not appear to be a breach of  ... the Act nor ... the section. ... no further action is taken at this time.

Did your office, or did your office not, approach the Office of Workplace Services to try to get a better report that might suit your political convenience? When will you finally admit that what Cowra Abattoir did was lawful under your act? You can knock off anyone who works for a company of fewer than 100 employees, and for someone who works for a company of greater than 100 employees, like Cowra Abattoir, ‘operational reasons’ suffices. Answer that question.

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