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

it is the correct term—and the people who run the show, if I can use that technical term. Can we be advised of the type of people it is intended to appoint? With Fair Work Australia, for example, we were promised by the former Prime Minister, Mr Rudd, that we would not be subjected to an endless tribe of 'trade union officials'. Of course, that is exactly what we have got with Fair Work Australia. What is going to be the procedure in relation to the appointment of the regulator and of the important personnel who will run this outfit?