John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

No, and what the member for Perth did not acknowledge is that the same information that was provided in the Senate last night indicated that 78 per cent of the sample agreements provided for a wage increase during the life of the agreement and, in 84 per cent of the agreements sampled, the wages were greater than the comparable standard rate, which is the hourly rate of the award.

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