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

The provisions would amend section 189 of the Fair Work Act, which was put into that act by members opposite, which has a protection around the BOOT test which says that any decision of the Fair Work Commission could not be contrary to the public interest. Those words, which you put into the act—indeed, which were just read out by the Leader of the Opposition—are the same protections precisely replicated by the words that would be inserted by this government in this bill.

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