Latest / Politics with Michelle Grattan
Brendan O'Connor on Labor’s industrial relations agenda
With Scott Morrison flagging his government will take a hard line on industrial relations, especially the CFMEU, Labor’s shadow minister for employment and workplace relations, Brendan O'Connor will have a tough job ahead of the election.
O'Connor says Labor remains totally opposed to the government’s Ensuring Integrity legislation, which the Coalition wants to resurrect. “I can’t see this bill in any way being salvageable, and that’s why of course it sat for a year without the Senate debating it,” he says.
O'Connor acknowledges there have been problems with “civil breaches” by the…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.