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

My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I refer the minister to her approval of a $4 million grant to the homeworkers committee for the textile, footwear and clothing industry. Is the minister aware that the address and telephone details for that committee are in fact the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia, a union investigated by her department for its standover tactics to extract cash payments from small business operators? Why did the minister calculate the $4 million grant on the union guesstimate of 330,000 outworkers when the official Australian Bureau of Statistics figure is actually 48,000?

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