Linda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Pocock can say he is saving the people of the ACT through the few consultations he has had with businesses here in the ACT, and somehow it is okay to do that on behalf of all other Australian workers. Through you, Chair, I say this to Senator Pocock: this will be your legacy in this place. As Senator Tyrell has said, this will have devastating consequences. It has not been properly considered.

You have decided. You are in a very, very important position with the balance of power, as a new senator, and you have used it. In one sense, I hope that you have genuinely been duped by Labor and the ACTU on these nurses' ball deals and amendments that you've done that we have not yet seen. I hope that you've been duped and it's not the 30 pieces of silver. Either way, for whatever reason it is—