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

I believe that the only thing I can usefully add to the answer I gave to the member for Perth is to make what I hope is the reasonable observation that I am not aware that the industrial relations policy even of the Australian Labor Party in 2006 requires that everybody working for a company be paid precisely the same wage—which of course is implicit in the envy based question asked by the honourable member. The reality is that here we have 200 more jobs being created. We have a 30-year low in unemployment. We have the highest participation rate on record. And all the Labor Party can do is to begrudge another 200 Australians getting a decent job. I think the Labor Party ought to be ashamed of itself.

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