Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Do you want to know why the Labor Party are so prepared to criticise Australian workplace agreements that have a third party check to ensure that fairness is in place but they are not prepared to criticise individual contracts where there is no third party check? You need look no further than the Labor Party and the ACTU ads—‘The new IR law is a shooting gallery’—where it says that employers are shooting workers on individual contracts. The Labor Party are so opposed to our laws that provide third party protection, but their mates in the ACTU are running ads about individual contracts that for 45c an hour take away the entitlements of the workers. Look at what the Labor Party do, not what they say. When it comes to hypocrisy, they get an A-plus!

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