Tony Sheldon (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The front page of this morning's Australian Financial Review says Amazon is now the second-largest online retailer in Australia. That should terrify anyone who cares about workplace rights, tax avoidance or general human decency in this country. Amazon's business model is to destroy the communities it operates in. Amazon destroys livelihoods by undercutting wages and forcing people into insecure work. Amazon destroys labour standards through its union-busting strategies. Amazon destroys work health and safety standards by imposing intensive work productivity targets and workplace surveillance.

That means drivers urinating in bottles and defecating in bags because they don't have time to have toilet breaks, female warehouse workers fired when they become pregnant, and stealing the work of thousands of Australian creatives to train AI products without consent or payment. Stop—