Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

It is no surprise that those on the opposite side of the chamber want at any opportunity to hark back to the past. They want to persecute workers, persecute union members. We have had the scare campaigns, and the Australian electorate voted. They did not believe the scare campaigns, but you can always leave it to the Liberal Party to come back to their true state of Work Choices. In relation to Senator Fisher’s question, I can guarantee that there will be a tough cop on the beat in the construction industry, and I can guarantee that the coercive powers will still be in place. But, at the same time as that, there must be procedural fairness. At the same time as that we can also guarantee some procedural fairness for workers, something that the Liberal Party do not understand and really have never cared about. (Time expired)