Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Just a very brief response to those comments: Senator Cormann has obviously failed to convince the Productivity Commission, which comprehensively rejected the approach that he is now proposing. Suggestions that they were bullied or that it was in an earlier interim report that was open for consultations simply seek to conceal that fact, and for those reasons we will be opposing these amendments.