Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I want to thank the minister for moving this amendment separately. I understand time is of the essence, so I'll just place on the record a couple of brief concerns that the Greens have about this amendment.

This amendment removes what we thought was a very good provision in the original bill that ensured there was a workers voice. In an industry like this—where care is in fact nothing, in many respects, but what the workers do—it is the workers who are doing the care. There's been a feeling, as expressed by the unions and other representatives, that over many years their voices and their concerns have not been heard, especially about the workplace, the delivery of packages and so on. We thought that the original provision in the bill was a good provision, and we don't think that it should be taken out. So we oppose this amendment because this amendment removes a workers voice.

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