Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is not a hopeless explanation. I am saying that when a genuine case has been made out the minister has acted. What the opposition wants to do, Senator Fielding, is sabotage this process with these sorts of amendments. What they want to do is invite everybody to make that argument and to make that case, and all that will do is add chaos. The provisions are there. When they need to be used, they can be used and they have been used. The people who do this are the industrial relations experts. The Industrial Relations Commission has evolved over 100 years and is managing this process. On the whole, it is the one best left to manage this process.