Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

The answer is yes because industrial dispute figures have been trending down strongly over time, noting that short-term comparisons and commentary can be misleading because the figures tend to fluctutate in the short-term and figures over the last year have been inflated by state public sector disputes outside of the Fair Work Act.