"When you analyse it carefully, it is about a family’s ability to stay together and have time together. We all know, with our fractured lives in this place, how difficult it becomes when we as human beings cannot spend time with one another. However, the problem is that these industrial relations laws now set that disease in place right across the nation in every workplace, in every part of the country. What I fear most of all is the ultimate impact of this on the fabric of Australian family life."
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Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd, AC (born 21 September 1957) was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia and leader of the federal Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was reinstated as leader of the party in June 2013, following a leadership challenge.
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