Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

That is correct. I wanted to ensure that, overnight, you couldn't suddenly provide further detail or clarification in relation to some specific examples. That's fine. So we can now go back—we've been asked to put these questions—and say: 'There is no further detail. There is no further clarification. The answer is consistent: it remains at the discretion of the Fair Work Commission.'

Just in terms of my questions to you that Senator Henderson had provided, I asked you: 'Had the government given consideration to excluding the manufacturing sector from the multi-employer provisions?' The answer to that question was no. Did the department provide any advice to the government about how this sector could be excluded or carved out?