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 and it again relates to the Serco Sodexho Defence Services AWA at Duntroon. Isn’t it the case that under this AWA someone working on the roster I am holding for a regular 38-hour week—Monday to Friday and only two hours overtime—would be worse off by $55 a week, more than $2,800 a year, or more than $14,100 over the course of the five-year agreement? Why does the Prime Minister continue to deliberately pretend that working Australians have choice when the only choice is a wage cut—in this case, ending up more than $14,000 worse off? Why doesn’t the Prime Minister stop persistently misleading the Australian people about AWAs? Prime Minister, just tell the truth: what you want is lower wages.

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