Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

And I will read it out. Steve Price said this, accurately:

Well, the restaurant industry today is predicting 1,000 restaurants will close and 2½ thousand jobs will disappear if this becomes law.

Then I went on to say:

Well, they were all going to disappear over various other issues from time to time as well and … it didn’t happen.

STEVE PRICE: Well, hang on. The restaurant industry is saying—

ALBANESE: Well …

STEVE PRICE: … they are going to lose 1,000 restaurants and 2½ thousand workers.

ALBANESE: Well, absolute nonsense. Absolute nonsense.

STEVE PRICE: That’s not going to happen?

ALBANESE: We operated as a country, as a nation, with a fair industrial and balanced industrial relations system pre Work Choices for a century. In many of the IR issues we were ahead of the world. We operated fairly, people were employed and we have nothing to fear from a fair balance in the workplace.

‘We have nothing to fear from a fair balance in the workplace’—and indeed we don’t, which is why the Australian people at the last election voted for a fair balance in the workplace.

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