Andrew Murray (WA, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

That is true! Having got that off my shoulder, I have to come back to the policy. By and large, I never thought that much of the Dawson report, frankly. I was not that impressed with it as a great work of policy and I did not think its outcomes mattered too much—and, that being so, you could probably happily support most of it. But there are two issues of contention. One is easiest to identify in principles terms, and I would remind the chamber that I am a very, very strong supporter of choice. In the days when it was not too popular to do it in this chamber I vigorously supported the right to join or not to join a union.