Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion 1186, standing in the name of Senator Abetz.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations (Mr Shorten) addressed the Maritime Workers Union's militancy conference on 26 February 2013, celebrating 140 years of the militant struggle and bringing together some of the most successful and militant trade unions from around Australia and the world;

(b) notes the Fair Work Ombudsman's civil prosecution, in Fair Work Ombudsman v Maritime Union of Australia & Anor WAD136/2012 in the Federal Court of Australia, for breaches of the Fair Work Act 2009 by the Maritime Workers Union of Australia, namely circulating posters labelling workers as scabs;

(c) condemns comments by Maritime Workers Union Western Australian Secretary, Mr Cain, at the same conference who told delegates that laws had to be broken; and

(d) calls on all Australians to obey the laws of the Commonwealth and its states and territories.

Question agreed to.