Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Colleagues, this is yet another inconvenient truth for Bill Shorten, the Leader of the Opposition, and the Australian Labor Party. The Fair Work Commission, this independent tribunal, was set up by the Australian Labor Party in 2009. The Labor Party then tasked the Fair Work Commission to review all awards every four years. As workplace relations minister—he does like to do things himself, like rip off workers and their penalty rates—Mr Shorten amended the Fair Work Act to specifically ensure that penalty rates were considered as part of this process. But they have even more ownership of this decision. Mr Shorten and Labor actually appointed the members of the commission who sat on the panel and made the decision. Good old President Iain Ross is one of those from the other side. So Mr Shorten made the rules, appointed the umpire and insisted on the decision—and now he is running a mile! (Time expired)