Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister for Emergency Management) (14:41): What do you know? It's 2.42 pm on a Wednesday— A government senator: On a broadcast day! Senator WATT: on a broadcast day—and it's another false scare campaign about IR. Is this the third we've had so far? I've lost track of just how many we've had in question time today. I'm not sure whether Senator Brockman knows that he is misleading people with what he's saying, but I'm here to help him. There is a distinction between industry-wide bargaining and multi-employer bargaining. Industry-wide bargaining involves a whole industry; multi-employer bargaining involves multiple employers. They are different things. We are in favour of allowing employers and employees, where they choose, to pursue multi-employer bargaining. That is not the same as industry-wide bargaining. It's in the name. Again, it's just another false scare campaign from an opposition that is— Opposition senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Senator Watt, please resume your seat. Senator McGrath, your constant interjections are disorderly, as are yours, Senator Cash. I would ask you to listen quietly. Minister, please continue. Senator WATT: I'm looking forward to the supplementary questions because we might get to our fourth and fifth scare campaigns in one question time alone. This one is yet another one that is completely baseless and completely misunderstands how industrial relations actually works in this country. What we've got is a coalition that is so intent on running scare campaigns to stop wages rising that they are clutching at straws, making things up and misinterpreting how their own laws actually work in order to throw mud at a government that is trying to do something about wage rises. It's actually a little bit sad to watch the coalition so completely misunderstand how industrial relations works that they would be making up these kinds of things. Anyone could just look at how those words operate—industry-wide; multi-employer. They're actually kind of different concepts. Do you know what? Industry-wide bargaining is also different to single-interest bargaining, which is another thing that we're providing for. They are completely different concepts. What you're talking about is not part of the government's agenda. It never has been part of the government's agenda. The only agenda this government has is to get wages moving again. The PRESIDENT: Senator Brockman, your first supplementary question?