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Federal minister Tony Burke says the industrial relations bill will pass with support from David Pocock.
Burke said he is in Canberra where he has been meeting with Senator Pocock at 8.30 on Saturday night and is “confident” the bill will pass.
It hasn’t been an easy negotiation and Senator Pocock has been very clear on a series of principles that he wanted to look at. As you know, he would have preferred that everything was dealt with next year when we said we wanted to make decisions this year. It has involved a very intense process, a lot of meeting, a lot of detail.
There are effectively three sorts of issues that have come to the fore. One is with respect to small business, the other is low-paid workers, and finally a concern that he has that is outside of my portfolio, but is part of the agreement, that goes to structural issues that we can put in place to deal with people who are went the payment system.
They are furious with him and I think the general view is that he showed contempt for them, for the people who were closest to him, who followed him religiously in many ways, and were loyal to the fold, and he treated them with contempt.
He treated Cabinet with contempt and he treated Parliament and parliamentary processes with contempt, for whatever reason. None of the reasons that he has given stack up, except, it sounds like he was deluded.
Continue reading…Matthew Guy must decide whether to remain as Liberal leader after second consecutive Coalition defeat‘Hope always defeats hate’: Labor claims 2022 Victoria state electionGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFederal minister Tony Burke says the industrial relations bill will pass with support from David Pocock.Burke said he is in Canberra where he has been meeting with Senator Pocock at 8.30 on Saturday night and is “confident” the bill will pass.It hasn’t been an easy negotiation and Senator Pocock has been very clear on a series of principles that he wanted to look at. As you know, he would have preferred that everything was dealt with next year when we said we wanted to make decisions this year. It has involved a very intense process, a lot of meeting, a lot of detail.There are effectively three sorts of issues that have come to the fore. One is with respect to small business, the other is low-paid workers, and finally a concern that he has that is outside of my portfolio, but is part of the agreement, that goes to structural issues that we can put in place to deal with people who are went the payment system.They are furious with him and I think the general view is that he showed contempt for them, for the people who were closest to him, who followed him religiously in many ways, and were loyal to the fold, and he treated them with contempt.He treated Cabinet with contempt and he treated Parliament and parliamentary processes with contempt, for whatever reason. None of the reasons that he has given stack up, except, it sounds like he was deluded. Continue reading…