Senator CAMPBELL (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Sport, Territories and Local Government)(6.10 p.m.) —Well, I am not a one-trick pony, Senator, but you do have to read the objects. My tricks are not very good anyway so I will stop trying to trick you. I really am not trying to trick you. I may be just devious by nature but you have to read the objects in association with the functions and you also have to read all the objects together; you cannot just pick one out. You have read paragraph (c) of clause 88A. It also says:

The objects of this part are to ensure that:

(a) wages and conditions of employment are protected by a system of enforceable awards; and

(b) awards are confined in their scope to providing a safety net of fair minimum wages and conditions—

Obviously, your side of politics would like to see the awards having much more scope than that but we are trying a new system and you do not like that, and I know where you are coming from. You say it is a radical new system and a departure from tearing up 100 years of establishment and others like Alan Wood say it is not radical enough and that it is very soft and very gentle. I think it is a move in the right direction. I am a practical realist in these things. I think you have got to get movement in the right direction.

So, Senator Collins, I recommend to you and the thousands of people across Australia who would be tuning into this debate through ESP—as well as the people in the gallery, the one attendant and two people there—that you read (a), (b), (c) and (d). Do not listen to Senator Collins. She is just selectively quoting from this bill that I do commend to the Senate.

The CHAIRMAN —Before I call Senator Sherry, I remind the chamber that we are considering the Government-Democrats amendment No. 17.