Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The report was received by the former government, which did not release it, presumably because they were of the view that it was laughable—and it was laughable because it did not model anybody’s industrial relations policy. The former government, in pursuit of their Work Choices campaign—a campaign they are still pursuing now—decided to deliberately feed in stupid and incorrect assumptions in the hope of getting out of the process something that they could politically use. Interestingly, when they were in government, they decided that this report could not be used by them even for that purpose. On the question of the impact of Labor’s laws—

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