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

I will take the interjection: ‘They should be on an AWA.’ What sort of answer is that from a gentleman who has just voted against making sure people can take Christmas Day or Good Friday off if they want to attend a religious ceremony? You have an opportunity now to ensure that employees who wish to attend a commemorative event on Anzac Day or to support the attendance of a member of the employee’s family at commemorative events on Anzac Day are taken to have reasonable grounds for refusing a request to work on those days. This is about making sure that people can say, ‘Listen, I want to march,’ or, ‘I want to be there while one of my relatives marches.’ I commend the amendment to the Senate.