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

My question is also to the Prime Minister and follows on from his answer to the previous question. Isn’t it the case that yesterday the Victorian Minister for Industrial Relations, Mr Hulls, in addition to describing AWAs as an abomination, actually said:

I fully support the federal opposition’s industrial relations policy and nothing that has been said today contradicts that. If Kim Beazley abolished AWAs in the private sector he would have complete support from us.

Isn’t it also the case that yesterday Minister Hulls released this report which shows:

Only around a third of all workplaces dominated by individual arrangements have annual leave loading, overtime rates and weekend penalty rates available to non-managerial employees.

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