Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

All this talk about pies is making me awfully hungry, actually. This is an important matter, so we are not wasting time here at all. From what I have heard, making these changes would make it even harder to look at the impact on a third party. We have Fair Work Australia, which is an independent umpire. I am more inclined to stick with what we have in the current bill, rather than adding in higher hurdles to jump over. If there is a real problem with this particular issue, parliament can come back and make some other changes. I do not think that we should take that lightly. I believe that protected industrial action should be okay, but we have to make sure that we consider the third parties. We should not make it too hard for them to make a claim. Fair Work Australia can adjudicate and be the policeman or the independent umpire. That is what this new legislation is trying to do. We should let them do their job and not make it even harder for a third party to claim that they are being impacted. I am inclined to leave the bill as it is in regard to items (12), (13), (14) and (15).