Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

An early report in the Australian online claimed that I refused to accept Labor’s mandate to abolish Work Choices. The fact is that, at a doorstop interview today, although strongly critical of the Fair Work Bill 2008, when queried by a journalist on Work Choices I said, effectively, that we had lost the election and Labor had won. Contrary to the report in the Australian online, I said that in a democracy Labor’s Work Choices mandate should be respected. The Australian online has now corrected the record.

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