

- Title
SAFE WORK AUSTRALIA BILL 2008
SAFE WORK AUSTRALIA (CONSEQUENTIAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL 2008
In Committee
- Database
Senate Hansard
- Date
14-10-2008
- Source
Senate
- Parl No.
42
- Electorate
Queensland
- Interjector
- Page
7
- Party
ALP
- Presenter
- Status
Proof
- Question No.
- Questioner
- Responder
- Speaker
Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Stage
In Committee
- Type
- Context
Bills
- System Id
chamber/hansards/2008-10-14/0033
Previous Fragment Next Fragment
-
Hansard
- Start of Business
- BUSINESS
-
SAFE WORK AUSTRALIA BILL 2008
SAFE WORK AUSTRALIA (CONSEQUENTIAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL 2008-
In Committee
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Siewert, Sen Rachel
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Siewert, Sen Rachel
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Siewert, Sen Rachel
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Siewert, Sen Rachel
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Abetz, Sen Eric
- Ludwig, Sen Joe
- Third Reading
-
In Committee
- BUSINESS
- MIGRATION AMENDMENT (NOTIFICATION REVIEW) BILL 2008
-
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
-
Age Pension
(Bernardi, Sen Cory, Evans, Sen Chris) -
Economy
(Crossin, Sen Trish, Evans, Sen Chris) -
Age Pension
(Ryan, Sen Scott, Evans, Sen Chris) -
Economy
(Furner, Sen Mark, Conroy, Sen Stephen) -
Automotive Industry
(Ferguson, Sen Alan, Carr, Sen Kim) -
Kunoth Town Camp
(Siewert, Sen Rachel, Evans, Sen Chris) -
Emissions Trading Scheme
(Minchin, Sen Nick, Evans, Sen Chris) -
Economy
(Arbib, Sen Mark, Sherry, Sen Nick) -
Trade
(Coonan, Sen Helen, Carr, Sen Kim) -
Economy
(Wortley, Sen Dana, Conroy, Sen Stephen) -
Murray-Darling River System
(Scullion, Sen Nigel, Ludwig, Sen Joe) -
Indigenous Communities
(McEwen, Sen Anne, Ludwig, Sen Joe)
-
Age Pension
- QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: ADDITIONAL ANSWERS
- QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: TAKE NOTE OF ANSWERS
- MR STEPHEN EDWARD (SAM) CALDER
- PETITIONS
- NOTICES
- COMMITTEES
- MS BRITT LAPTHORNE
- EXECUTIVE SALARIES
- ANTI-POVERTY WEEK
- IMPACT OF THE TRAVESTON CROSSING DAM ON THE AUSTRALIAN LUNGFISH
- FIRST SPACEWALK BY THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
- NOTICES
- WORLD SIGHT DAY
- COMMITTEES
-
NATIONAL FUELWATCH (EMPOWERING CONSUMERS) BILL 2008
NATIONAL FUELWATCH (EMPOWERING CONSUMERS) (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) BILL 2008 - COMMITTEES
-
TAX LAWS AMENDMENT (POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND GIFTS) BILL 2008
FINANCIAL TRANSACTION REPORTS AMENDMENT (TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS) BILL 2008 - TAX LAWS AMENDMENT (MEDICARE LEVY SURCHARGE THRESHOLDS) BILL (NO. 2) 2008
- INDEPENDENT REVIEWER OF TERRORISM LAWS BILL 2008 [NO. 2]
- SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS (EQUAL TREATMENT IN COMMONWEALTH LAWS—SUPERANNUATION) BILL 2008
- SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS (EQUAL TREATMENT IN COMMONWEALTH LAWS—GENERAL LAW REFORM) BILL 2008
- MIGRATION AMENDMENT (NOTIFICATION REVIEW) BILL 2008
- FAMILY LAW AMENDMENT (DE FACTO FINANCIAL MATTERS AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2008
- SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS (EQUAL TREATMENT IN COMMONWEALTH LAWS—SUPERANNUATION) BILL 2008
- ADJOURNMENT
- Adjournment
- DOCUMENTS
- QUESTIONS ON NOTICE
Page: 7
Senator LUDWIG (Minister for Human Services) (1:16 PM)
—I think the problem we then get into is the circularity of the argument. It is one where it is not unreasonable for the minister to indicate, for the reasons specified in the legislation, that someone is not performing their task. If so then the minister can have that power to dismiss. It is a power to dismiss, and what happens from that point on really becomes a matter of the particular circumstances. I did not want to entertain a hypothetical debate as to what might apply depending on the circumstances, because it will turn on the factual matrix of the circumstances at any particular time in respect of the parties, what the nature of the issue is and what the nature of the unsatisfactory work performance is alleged to be. Therefore, we could be here for quite some time trying to second-guess what those are. The provision is straightforward. If you do not agree to it then clearly you do not and we should move on. It is a matter that we think is a reasonable provision to put in the legislation.