Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and former political staffer. Can the minister confirm that the government’s 2004 IR election policy contained nothing about allowing award conditions to be stripped with no compensation, nothing about allowing ‘take it or leave it’ AWAs to be offered to employees and nothing about removing unfair dismissal protections from over four million Australian workers employed by business with fewer than 100 employees and other employees under so-called genuine operational reasons? Why should the people believe anything the minister says about the government’s intentions for industrial relations after the next election?

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