Annette Hurley (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation (Senator Abetz) to questions without notice asked today relating to changes to industrial relations.

The Howard government Work Choices legislation is a systematic attack on the values of the Australian people. This legislation deserves to be torn up and comprehensively rewritten. That is not just the view of the Labor Party or members in this house; it is also the view and the lesson learned from the election in South Australia. The Howard government Work Choices legislation is an extremely unpopular piece of legislation, as we on this side of the house have learned from our candidates during the South Australian election—