Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

In cricket, I think, when the batsman starts his walk he cannot change his mind and come back to the crease; he should have kept going!

The truth is—and the member for Watson knows this as well as the Leader of the Opposition and so many of the former union officials opposite—they know that their unions have traded away penalty rates again and again. The Leader of the Opposition, of course, is distinguished for trading them away in return for undisclosed cash payments to the union. That was the subject of condemnation in the royal commission report. But, right across the board, penalty rates have been compromised by those opposite.

What the Labor Party used to say for only about 120 years—from its foundation, in fact—was that the independent umpire in matters of fixing wages and fixing penalty rates should be respected.

Ms Plibersek interjecting—

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