Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

I find it highly amusing when Senator Boswell seeks to lecture us about our relationships with the trade union movement. I find it extraordinary that the group in that corner—including of course Senator Boswell with his long interest in the meat industry, and in particular his direct involvement with trying to undermine workers’ conditions in the meat industry and his direct involvement in pursuing the Work Choices options that he has throughout the last 12 years of the previous government—would now seek to lecture a Labor government on its relationship with the trade union movement. What I do know is simply this: every trade unionist in this country understands the importance of climate change and is concerned to ensure that appropriate action is taken to mitigate the costs of climate change. Every decent trade unionist in this country understands the costs of climate change. (Time expired)