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

It is a case where it has not actually gone through the final decision-making process. I cannot see any reason why it would not, but of course I cannot second-guess the relevant minister. I am only representing the minister in this chamber, and it would require all of those steps to be clearly gone through before I could make such an assertion.

The comfort level I can leave you with is that I cannot see any reason why it would not. We have certainly been mindful of the ILO conventions in drafting the Fair Work Bill and we have ensured that we have put it in a prominent place within the objects of the bill to give effect to these obligations. The government has taken the ILO conventions into account. It is perhaps best to leave it at that point.