The Morrison government's union-busting legislation has been reintroduced to parliament, less than a week after it was rejected by the Senate.
Union-busting legislation has been reintroduced amid tense scenes in parliament, less than a week after the billLabor tried to delay Attorney-General Christian Porter's introduction of the bill, which has been slightly tweaked to include amendments from the Senate crossbench.
The attorney-general pointed to figures from the Australian Building and Construction Commission during his speech, saying there had beenLabor's industrial relations spokesman Tony Burke tried to delay the bill from being debated until mid-2022, saying the government couldn't accept that the draft laws had been defeated."A bill that is part of this government's two-stage tactic."Stage one: attack the organisations that defend pay and conditions.
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