Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1)

notes that the Prime Minister has not made any contribution to the 20 Matters of Public Importance and Censure debates on the subject of industrial relations moved in the House of Representatives since October 2005;

(2)

notes that the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Pell, has expressed dislike for the Howard Government’s extreme industrial relations laws because they could be used to force down minimum wages;

(3)

notes that Cardinal Pell has described public debates such as the one on the Howard Government’s extreme industrial relations laws proposed by the Leader of the Opposition as always, always useful; and

(4)

calls on the Prime Minister to agree to a full and open public debate on the impact of his extreme industrial relations laws on the lives of working men and women and their families. (Notice given 19 June 2006.)

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