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

I only went to a public school but I trust my maths is good enough, unlike the senator opposite. On my calculations, the number of pages to which the honourable senator has referred will be not even the size of one award. So, instead of people having to look through mountains of awards, the system has been simplified. We will now have a situation where, instead of having to look through these awards that have turned into books, people can now go to one central place to determine the workplace relations of this country in a unitary system. If you were to stack up all the state legislation on top of each other and then all the awards on top of that, my view would be that the chances are you would be hitting the top of the flagpole on top of this place.