Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

What those opposite have failed to understand—in fact, failed to listen to—is that we are talking about an industrial relations system that ensures that people can take protected industrial action and can bargain for an enterprise agreement, and the content of that agreement, as I have been saying, allows them to deal with matters pertaining to the employee-employer relationship and the other matters that I also went to. That ensures that the parties can then determine the content of the agreement and, if they want to bargain over issues that it contains, then they can in fact bargain on those matters. What the opposition subscribed to is a system which ensures that there is not fair bargaining, that employees cannot take protected industrial action— (Time expired)