Education and Training (Grants—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill

Members, we now come to Part 2. Part 2 is the debate on clause 5 and the Schedule—“Transitional, savings, and related provisions”. The question is that Part 2 stand part. Is the member going to take a call?

My apologies, Madam Chair. I did want to take a call on Part 2 because the Minister made a comment in relation to Part 1 that has a consequential result in Part 2, which was that he said that the employment relations aims referred to in Part 1 would be pay parity. So my question is: did he consider inserting into Part 2, or elsewhere in the bill, some sort of a definition of “pay parity”, or a clarification that the employment relations aims that he sought were narrowed down to that, and did he consider advice about whether or not that should be narrowed in this part of the bill or elsewhere in order to be crystal clear that this was not to be a vehicle for the Minister to be able to implement his broader employment relations aims as they may apply to union membership or as they may apply to other goals that he or any future Minister may have and may be able to use this bill as a vehicle to achieve?

Part 2 agreed to.