Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Talking about antics, we have just heard five minutes of hypocritical statements from Senator Abetz. What did they give Australian working families? I will tell you—Work Choices and AWAs, a policy that was not only strongly supported by Senator Abetz but also taken around our state of Tasmania, where Senator Abetz is from; people were told that they were going to be better off. But that is not the case. Under the opposition’s industrial relations laws—