Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Deakin for his question and reiterate to him and to the House that this government is committed to providing both employers and employees with the flexibility to choose suitable employment agreements for their workplaces. I was asked about any specific examples. I was interested to read last night that AAP, the news service, reported that the member for Perth was completely unaware that Martin Donnelly Electrical Services had offered its employees the choice of a collective agreement or an Australian workplace agreement.

On Monday the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Perth went down to a construction site here in Canberra and sought to—and in fact did—publicly defame an Australian business. They did that, as was shown yesterday, without establishing the facts of the case whatsoever. They accepted the spin of their union masters in this case and launched an unwarranted attack on Australian business.

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