Legislative Council Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1) 55 1 Parliament of South Australia Legislative Council published Question Time Public Sector Industrial Relations Public Sector Industrial Relations The Hon. R.A. SIMMS Legislative Council Public Sector Industrial Relations The Hon. R.A. SIMMS (15:16): Supplementary question: will the minister be supporting the calls of the unions he mentioned to provide thankyou payments to nurses and other workers in our hospital sector? The Hon. K.J. MAHER Legislative Council Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Attorney-General Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector Public Sector Industrial Relations The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (15:16): I thank the honourable member for his question. These have certainly come up during enterprise bargaining negotiations. We will continue, as we have done, to say that nothing is off the table, unlike the former government who had an absolute policy that there would be no back pay even when industrial agreements had expired. We don't take that approach and we bargain in good faith.