Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Again, the premise of the question is just completely incorrect. There is nothing in this bill that does or facilitates what the opposition spokesperson on industrial relations contends—nothing at all. What is in the bill is a range of reasonable, sensible, debated changes that will increase jobs growth in Australia and actually ensure that people have their employment relations governed under agreements that have always increased people's wages. There's one example of that that I think is pertinent, and that is with respect to that part and the provisions of the bill that seek to have enterprise agreements for a period of greater than four years for what are known as greenfield projects, our most important mining and resources projects. There are a range of people who've submitted—indeed, the member for Maribyrnong was one of them, before the last election—that having the ability to have those agreements for greater than four years—

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