Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

The question goes to workplace relations issues. I'll go through that. First of all in terms of Anzac Day, we are in a room of 151 representatives, all of whom take Anzac Day incredibly seriously and all of whom on both sides have direct relationships with veterans, and we as a government share the view that every other member in this place shares about the significance and the importance of Anzac Day. For the entire nine years of the last government, a flexibility provision applied in a series of workplaces around the country—a provision for almost the entire nine years of the previous government—

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