Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

While we are on the question of reports, the minister would be aware of a report commissioned by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations from the Centre of Policy Studies at Monash University, which was commissioned before the Work Choices legislation was tabled but after the announcement outlining the broad content of the legislation, that announcement being made by the Prime Minister. I have sought access to that report of the Centre of Policy Studies under freedom of information legislation. The department appears to be using every piece of technical and legal device to deny access to that report. I ask the minister, in the spirit of the democratic traditions of this parliament and the public interest in such a report, whether he will make the report available to me and through me to the Australian public.

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