Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

WATT (—) (): I'm not sure that I talked about the usual legal meaning of 'some'. What I'm talking about is the usual meaning of 'some'. People use that word every day in Australian life, and I think they know that 'some' is more than 'one'. But let's remember that what we're talking about here is cooperative workplace agreements. There are obviously a range of different streams of agreements being provided for by this legislation. What we're talking about here is the cooperative workplace agreement where there is agreement between an employer and a union that a particular workplace should have its terms and conditions governed by a cooperative agreement, so the entire basis of this stream of bargaining is that there is agreement between an employer and a union in which there are at least some of the employees. Really the point of it to say that not every employee at that business needs to be represented by a union but at least some of them are.