Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025

Senator KOVACIC (New South Wales) (11:56): Going back to your answer in relation to previous attempts to reduce penalty rates, Minister, can you confirm whether that relates to the 2016 matter where there was a union negotiated agreement by the SDA which cut penalty rates and that the Fair Work Commission actually overturned that? If that was the case, if the Fair Work Commission were capable of overturning this union led decision in 2016, is that a reflection of the powers of section 134 of the act already doing what they were intended to do in relation to penalty rates?