Nick Xenophon (SA, Nick Xenophon Team) Share this | Hansard source

I am very pleased to co-sponsor this amendment with my colleagues Senators Hinch, Lambie and Culleton. It requires the commissioner to perform his or her functions in relation to a number of matters, including wages and entitlements, protection of freedom of association, discrimination, sham arrangements and a number of other matters, including right of entry, because there has been concern that the current FWBC director has not been carrying out these functions, and it is important that the commissioner is required to do so. This gives it some statutory teeth and, arguably, administrative remedies in terms of mandamus should the commissioner fail to do so.