John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Since Work Choices began, nearly 30,000 AWAs have been lodged. The Leader of the Opposition wants to rip all of them up and he wants to rip up all of the older AWAs. I will leave the last word in answer to my colleague’s question to that Western Australian worker, Mr Eddie Belcher. He said:

Australians have got freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of everything. If we want to make a deal with our employer over our working conditions, that is up to us.

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