Ursula Stephens (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition (Social and Community Affairs)) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Haven’t international studies shown that in families where both parents worked atypical hours, the parents display less effective parenting and their children show higher levels of aggression? In other words, tired and stressed people do not make good parents. Don’t the government’s IR changes only increase those pressures, with some employees being forced to work longer hours or weekends and holidays?