Is Senator Abetz correct when he says that the rate of strikes is up since the election?
JULIA GILLARD: Senator Abetz should look at the figures. Strike rates are very low. We see strikes from time to time, coinciding with collective bargaining agreements coming up for re-bargaining; nothing more, nothing less. MARIUS BENSON: Has the political situation been changed radically by the election of Tony Abbott? He appears to have had a good start in the polls. Is the Government reviewing its own approach, given the new opponent it is facing? JULIA GILLARD: Mr Abbott – obviously I don’t comment on the polls – but what I would say is that Mr Abbott is making clear his platform for the next election and his platform for the next election is clearing bringing back Work Choices. I mean, he’s out there very, very clearly saying to people he wants individual contracts back, he wants unfair dismissal remedies gone. Now, this was the heart of Work Choices. In the first few sentences he said as leader of the Opposition when elected he said the phrase Work Choices was dead. Now, that was
