Andrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

He said:

If, for example, you came in, as you said, as a company wanting to set up an infrastructure project over $150 million, you are then bound by the system that says: you absolutely mandatorily have to test the labour market.

This contrasts with the 2011 official guidelines for Labor's EMA, their enterprise migration agreement, which says, 'You will be requested to submit an analysis of the labour market requirements for your projects, and labour market testing is not required.' That was your government document, not ours.

So there you have it, Mr Speaker—the facts as opposed to the misinformation and the scaremongering. Now it is crunch time for the Leader of the Opposition. It is time for those opposite to stop siding with the CFMEU and back this agreement. (Time expired)

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