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

Senator KOVACIC (New South Wales) (18:51): The problem is that—and I acknowledge and understand what you are telling me—evidence to the inquiry of this parliament, of this Senate, gave us different information. Some of the information is in line with what you have stated, but there was a significant amount of evidence contrary to that. So I would like to understand why that would not be considered, particularly the unintended consequences around productivity and flexibility and the impacts to both workers and small business before the passage of this legislation.

Why go blindly and say: 'We're not listening to you. You're wrong; we're right,' despite significant evidence to the contrary that was quite credibly presented?