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

I want to go through that. 'May' being the operative word. My question was, is the chamber to take this to mean that if the Fair Work Commission is unsure there is a clearly identifiable common interest, so we don't know—so on that we're unable to determine whether or not there's a clearly identifiable common interest between the employers—and then the employers are not substantially funded directly or indirectly by the government, are you saying the Fair Work Commission should err on the side of not granting the authorisation? So we're not sure if there is a common interest. We do know that they are potentially not substantially funded, directly or indirectly, by the government. Is the guidance then that you should err on the side of not granting the authorisation? And is it the intent of government that the supported bargaining stream focus on funded sectors?