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

It is quite obvious that the motivation for this legislation is: Labor redundancies are okay; LNP redundancies are not okay. This is why this legislation was rushed in and why it was done in such a hashed way. So possibly the minister can explain to the Senate the reason this bill was forced through the House of Representatives so quickly only to now have an amended explanatory memorandum and the need for four tranches of government amendments.