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

Thank you, Mr President. I am reminded of the question; I am reminded that Senator Fisher, like all of those opposite, chose to pass the Work Choices legislation, which ensured that workers in this country could be subjected to wage-stripping, conditions-stripping Australian workplace agreements. If the question is referring to maximum weekly hours, I would refer the senator to the provisions of the National Employment Standards which deal with that—they are quite lengthy—notwithstanding the fact that—