Craig Laundy (Reid, Liberal Party, Minister for Small and Family Business, the Workplace and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I do thank the member for Capricornia for her question. I want to thank her, the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, the member for Dawson and the member for Flynn, in particular. I am pleased to inform the House that next Monday the workers at Oaky Creek will head back into the mine, and that is a great result and I would like to thank the Fair Work Commission for the role it has played in that. But, in particular, I would like to thank the member for Capricornia, the member for Dawson, the member for Flynn and the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia for the opportunity they provided me in meeting with local CFMEU delegates in the last couple of weeks, as well as with the company involved, Glencore. In the last couple of weeks I have met with both sides of this dispute on several occasions, as have they. We have urged the parties to come together and bargain in good faith—an approach that I hope, in whatever time I have in this portfolio, to attack it with, to bring both sides together—

Ms Chesters interjecting—

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