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that view, that removal of the words "in appropriate languages" would still provide protection, because we see this as being picked up in the duty of care which is demanded by that part of the legislation.
Amendment agreed to.
MR STEFANIAK (4.05): I move:
Page 12, line 12, omit the comma and the words "and welfare", substitute after "health" and before "safety" the word "and".
Effectively, this amendment just takes out the reference to welfare. As I have already spoken, Mr Speaker, I will not speak further.
Amendment negatived.
MR STEFANIAK (4.06): I move:
Page 12, line 30, omit "or any involved union".
I would indicate to members - and I never expected the Australian Labor Party to have anything to do with removing involved unions; that is unfortunate but it is not surprising - that a number of other people in this Assembly, I believe, made a very grave error in supporting the Government in relation to this issue when we debated clause 5 and the definition section last Thursday. I would indicate that this is the first of 11 further references to involved unions in a substantive part of the Bill.
I urge members who voted to retain in the Bill the term "involved unions", thus enabling a third party to force its way into what are designed to be agreements between employers and workers at the shopface, to reconsider. If indeed they see the light and reconsider, this and the remaining 10 other references to "involved unions" can come out of this Bill. We can then go back, pursuant to standing order 187, and reconsider part I prior to voting on the Bill as a whole, and delete the definition of "involved unions".
I formally advise the Assembly that, if the Liberal Party is unsuccessful in having the words "involved unions" deleted and they remain in this Bill, we will move amendments to this Bill ourselves to include involved employer groups.
In addition, I wish to quote a couple of comments from CARD. A person in CARD has given me permission to have this recorded:
The private sector has agreed to the need for occupational health and safety legislation, and what they did not agree to is to the intrusion that unions will be allowed under this legislation
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