Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

It would be a bizarre situation where the employee thought the agreement was fair and had it submitted, and the Workplace Authority Director said, in effect, ‘Think you’ve short-changed yourself a bit here, mate; you should really be getting a bit more in a particular area,’ and so the employee all of a sudden gets a windfall, courtesy of the Workplace Authority Director, and then turns around and says, ‘Hey, I don’t want an extra 45c’—no, I won’t be provocative; he turns around and says, ‘I don’t want the extra money or the extra conditions that are now being suggested.’ It just is not in the real world.