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

As I was saying, there are take-home pay orders that can be granted by Fair Work Australia which will put in place guarantees on employee entitlements and conditions. But it quite amazes me that for 12 years the coalition talked about reform—they talked about this reform of simplifying awards, they talked about getting rid of the duplication, they talked about microeconomic reform—but in the end what did they do in this field? Absolutely nothing. They did not take it on. The reform was too hard. They have left it to the Labor Party. They want us to do the hard work.