Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senator Steele-John, move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes with deep concern that:

  (i) Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have created a parallel industrial relations system where corporations write their own rules, and

  (ii) in the last ten years FTAs have seen an erosion of labour standards, and a failure to include protections for human rights and the environment;

(b) calls on the Government to seek to renegotiate FTAs which:

  (i) fail to mandate labour market testing which undermines local jobs and industry,

  (ii) create a parallel industrial relations system which undermines workers' rights and conditions, and

  (iii) leave temporary migrant workers extremely vulnerable to exploitation; and

(c) should the Government fail to renegotiate these FTAs, calls on the Government to withdraw Australia from these damaging FTAs.