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

This motion seeks to support the fair work laws; invite people to note how the fair work laws came into being; call on all employers, employees and other groups to abide by the fair work laws; and to condemn any expression of support for breaching the fair work laws. If what the senator from the Labor Party asserts is correct, she is, in fact, condemning Labor's laws. As she would well know, the law does allow people to walk off the job in circumstances where a life is in danger, and to suggest otherwise is completely wrong and false, and somebody from the Australian Labor Party should know a lot better than that.

This is another motion inviting the Senate to support the rule of law—in this case, specifically, Labor's own laws in the fair work laws. It will be interesting to see if they support their own laws.

Question agreed to.