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

You'll find that businesses around the country have provisions where individual workers can choose a different day, to switch days of public holidays, not as an issue of protest but as an issue of flexibility, which has worked for employers and employees across all public holidays around the country. If those opposite believe that those rules that have been in place for their entire nine years, if those opposite believe that those rules that are asked for by employers to be in agreements all around the country, if they want to draw a line under that because they think there is some sort of culture war to raise questions where none should be asked then they may well want to go down that path. But for their nine years, the same provisions applied.

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