Since 2007 and the election of Labor’s Rudd/Gillard government, regulation of the workforce, wages and conditions have returned to a pre-1980s, pre-reform state. Senator The Honourable Eric Abetz is the Minister for Employment, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service and Leader of the Government in the Senate. On Tuesday 28 January, Senator…

Senator Eric Abetz is Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Elected to the Senate at the 1998 federal election, Senator Abetz has sat in the Senate since July 1999 and is one of the longest serving Coalition senators. On 1 July, the Australian Senate’s numbers gave…