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

Mr President, no less an authority than the former ACTU president and Labor cabinet minister Martin Ferguson said:

The Fair Work Act must be revised, especially in regard to major resource project construction.

Senator Wong can turn her back on the fact that a doyen of the labour movement has come to that conclusion, but it does not change the fact.

Commenting on exorbitant wage claims and the resources industry, Mr Ferguson said:

… it is time that some [union leaders] recognised that their members’ real interests are aligned with their long-term job security.

And Professor Andrew Stewart, the architect of Labor's Fair Work laws, said, 'We will hear a lot about this as a return to Work Choices and AWAs'—