Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance and Responsibility) Share this | Hansard source

I indicate that the Labor Party is supporting this and flag that in fact the Labor Party is supporting all amendments that Senator Murray is to move on sheet 4847. Very briefly, in relation to the proposed amendment here, which seeks, as Senator Murray indicates, to ensure that any association so referred to under the amended act is independent of control or improper influence by an employer or a union, if the government is opposing this amendment, perhaps the minister could clarify why it believes that an association set out in this legislation should be capable of being one that is under the control or improper influence of an employer.