Slade Brockman (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

There's no explanation in the explanatory memorandum, so it would have been a waste of time, Senator Scarr, for businesses to actually read the explanatory memorandum. That's because the department and the Fair Work Commission couldn't explain it and, presumably, they're the ones who the government, at least partially, consulted on this bill—if they weren't just talking to the unions, which is entirely possible.

My good friend Ms Marino, the member for Forrest, asked a pretty simple question in the House about something that occurs in quite a few places in her electorate. You might have a beautiful, lovely rural block with a little brew house on it. You might serve a bit of food and it's a lovely place to go. I've been to one or two of them myself! Then right next door to it is a winery which sells a little bit of wine and a little bit of food; it's got a restaurant attached. They look pretty similar. But when Nola Marino, the member for Forrest, asked about this the Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness and Minister for Small Business, Ms Collins, said: 'Seriously, we keep getting all sorts of analogies from those opposite. We've said that they need to be comparable. They clearly are not.' Well, wait a sec, they're not comparable?