Senator MURRAY(6.35 p.m.) —These essentially are again, in our view, unnecessary, although argued with merit—the first, and by that I refer to amendment 11, because this is a requirement that does not apply to inspectors appointed to awards management branch under section 84 of the current Industrial Relations Act. One would expect that these inspectors are likely to be those authorised by the advocate under section 83BG to be authorised officers.

Amendment 12 does have merit but I believe is picked up largely under the new requirement for the advocate to have particular regard to workers of a non-English speaking background under new paragraph 83BB(2)(a). Such regard would obviously extend to appointing authorised officers capable of conversing with such workers. For those reasons, we oppose the amendments.