Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to comments made by the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Pell, on Sunday:

I don’t particularly like the new IR laws because I’m frightened they could be used to force down minimum wages.

I also refer the Prime Minister to Laurie Oakes’s article in the Bulletin magazine today when he said:

Cardinal Pell is right to be concerned. These laws will lead to lower pay and worse conditions for a not insignificant number of workers. The government has known it all along. It lied in claiming other-wise.

Prime Minister, isn’t Laurie Oakes right?

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