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

On this basis, a calculation along the lines of that made by the member for Perth shows an employee working 38 ordinary hours and three hours overtime would actually be $27 a week better off and over $4,000 better off over three years. The member for Perth asks me to release the calculations. I have just repeated them; I do not need to release them. Self-evidently, the member for Perth has been caught out telling porkies. He said, ‘$65 a week worse off’, ‘$27 a week better off’.

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