Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

By the end of the year, one in five workers in Western Australia will be on an AWA. Are you saying that they are part of that conspiracy of silence, or a conspiracy of cover-up? At the end of the year more than two million Australian workers would have signed up willingly to agreements under the new industrial relations regime. What the Labor Party fails to appreciate is that we are about trying to keep the economy prosperous. We are about trying to keep the economy strong.

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