Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I note Senator Ellison’s comments about the procedure and I thank the opposition for their decision to support this motion and their cooperation in relation to this bill. We look forward to their support and its speedy passage through the chamber.

One comment in response to Senator Bartlett: I appreciate the position which he is putting which, to be fair to him, is consistent with the position he has put regardless of who was in government. I would make the point in relation to mandate that I do not believe anyone in this chamber argues seriously that the former Prime Minister had a mandate to do what he chose to do with Work Choices. I do not believe the Australian people were told the detail of what that legislation would encompass. I suggest, by contrast, that the details of this legislation were included in significant part in Labor’s two election policies on this issue.

Question agreed to.