Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that Qantas did warn the minister and the government of its intention to ground its fleet, how could the government then claim that it was not warned—indeed, that it was ambushed? Was Mr Sheldon of the Transport Workers Union correct when he said, 'I have no confidence in Chris Evans's capacity to deal with the fundamental industrial relations issues of this country'?