Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Sorry—Senator Hinch. So it is the teamwork that I am very proud of amongst the crossbench senators, especially of my colleague Senator Culleton, who has been very busy in the last few weeks and has worked extremely hard on this.

I still see the need for other changes in industrial relations in this country. I have mentioned them before. The IR carve-out is a source of abuse right now. It needs to be narrowed. With that in mind, I wrote to the Minister for Employment some weeks ago and also to the Treasurer, Mr Morrison, and asked them to review the IR carve-out through the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman, with a view to narrowing it to stop the abuse that is going on right now.

I also believe that, even though we are putting in place more federal legislation, once the industry is tightened up and brought back under rule of law, we need to get the federal government out of industrial relations, just like we need to get it out of health and education, and restore them to competitive federalism under sovereign states.

I really commend the government for having the initiative to bring this bill forward. I also commend the government for having the sense to listen to us expressing our constituents' views. I commend this bill to the Senate.