Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Those on the other side make fun of jobs. It is a fact that we have record full-time employment in Australia. It is a fact that those on the other side recently voted against our amendments to ensure the definition of 'casual' was properly put but also to put in place a pathway to permanency from casual employment. Those on the other side voted against it.

They also voted against the reforms that we were putting in place on greenfields agreements to ensure greater certainty for the mining sector. They have the audacity to say they are going to visit the great state of Western Australia. Mr Albanese said he is taking his shadow cabinet to the great state of Western Australia, and guess what? They can't support reforms to greenfields agreements. How can you possibly touch down in the great state of Western Australia to stand on a mine site in hi-vis? Guess what? That does not prove that you support the mining industry, in particular when you don't support the cutting, as Minister Morton does, of red and green tape in the mining industry.