Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

As the honourable senator well knows, Work Choices legislated for the first time in a number of areas to in fact protect workers. What I would invite honourable senators and every Australian to do is look at the totality of the Work Choices package. If you look at the totality of the Work Choices package, you will see and understand why it is such a good package. This is the same sort of stunt that the Labor opposition used to do to my good colleague Senator Kemp in relation to the GST. They would try to pick out one little area of the tax reform and then try to blow it up, and try to distract people from the main game. Of course, even the Labor Party have now rolled over on roll-back and accepted GST. They ought to do the same on Work Choices.