Hon MICHAEL WOOD (Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety): I thank the various members for their questions and discussion on a range of points. I'll start with Ms Luxton's discussion about her experience as a small-business owner and some of the benefits of providing appropriate sick leave for her employees. She asked a very specific question of me, which is that if someone works part time, is it correct that sick leave will only apply on the days that they ordinarily work? The answer to that is yes. This is quite an important point in respect of the prorating argument that we've had a little bit of dialogue around so far. Because the reality is that a part-time worker only works on a certain number of days per week, and so the incidence of sick leave that they will need to call upon is going to be less than the incidence of sick leave that a full-time worker will need to call upon. Because, on average, that person, when they become sick, will become sick on days that they are ordinarily working less than the number of days that a full-time worker becomes sick on a day that they are ordinarily working. So I do think it's just simple maths that some of the rhetoric that we have heard about a blowout in sick leave from part-time employees, that every part-time employee is going to rack up the full entitlement, simply isn't borne out—either by the maths or the facts.