Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

She is nodding. The minister is at the table and nodding that she says employers around this country are scouring their workplaces to find good workers to sack for no reason. They are your words, Minister. No wonder business confidence in the government’s policies has collapsed. When you have a minister who attacks business relentlessly and says they are scouring the workplaces for good workers to sack, we know that the Labor Party’s industrial relations regime is in disarray. Why else would they vote to retain the Work Choices unfair dismissal laws? If the minister will not come to the table and admit that workers will be worse off, why is it that they voted last night to retain—

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