Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the government have a target for the percentage of the Australian workforce to be covered by Australian workplace agreements? Specifically, does the government have a plan to use the federal-state healthcare funding agreements to force the offering of Australian workplace agreements to Australia’s 250,000 nurses?

John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I am not aware of that. I do not have a target and I am informed by both my Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and my Minister for Health and Ageing that there is no such target.