Julian McGauran (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

The two union men over there have not got the courage to defend the Labor position in the industrial relations debate. They have not got the courage to stand up in here and tell the public and the parliament why they are going to abolish the unfair dismissal laws and why they are going to abolish the secondary boycott laws. That is a hidden agenda. They are going to abolish the secondary boycott laws to give the Maritime Workers Union all that power back. Why are they going to abolish AWAs? There has been no debate on that in this parliament. How pathetic.

Instead, they rely on what they think is an old faithful—border protection. Let me tell you about border protection. In the national interest, the government is bringing in this legislation.