'A big win'

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has told Melbourne's 3AW Radio that the passing of the Australian Building and Construction Commission is a big win:

Restoring the rule of law is a critical economic reform and it goes together with the other economic reform passed by the Senate, the Registered Organisations Bill.

These are very big reforms. They have been opposed by Labor for many years and now they are law.



The Prime Minister repeated his Treasurer's comments earlier today, saying the Government would not reintroduce the backpacker tax into the Senate until it was confident it would pass.

Mr Turnbull said the opposition was "spitting chips" that the Government passed the ABCC and many were opposing the backpacker tax "out of spite".