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

The honourable member has brought Margarita here. We applaud Margarita. She has an employer. But we do not know who the employer is. The employer has said he will cut her wages; is that right?

Mr Shorten interjecting—

Oh, no—the Leader of the Opposition is not prepared to go that far! The truth is that the one thing I can say for sure is that Margarita is lucky not to have the Leader of the Opposition representing her, because she would be sold down the river like the cleaners at Clean Event. Perhaps the honourable member, who will not tell us who the employer is, might tell us what the money—the $75,000—that came from Clean Event was really for. Those workers' penalty rates were reduced in a deal with the union that the opposition leader led.

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