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

Why are you rolling your eyes? You admitted last night that the Work Choices industrial relations laws should remain. If the Labor Party are so concerned about the Work Choices unfair dismissal laws, when they had the opportunity to support the Democrats one-page amendment that took out 100 and put in 15—that is how simple it is—why did the Labor senators vote to retain it? What we have seen today are 37 amendments. This is not the legislation that Labor promised the Australian public they would introduce. They have listened to the concerns of the Senate inquiry, for which I am grateful, but the high-handed, dismissive attitude of this government is here for everyone to see. They have not got rid of individual contracts; they are extending them. They have voted to maintain the Work Choices unfair dismissal laws. Labor’s industrial relations policy is a fraud on the Australian public. (Time expired)

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