House debates Questions without Notice

Workplace Relations

Thursday, 30 November 2006 House of Representatives

John Murphy

John Murphy Lowe, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition

2:40 pm

My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I again refer to the Australian Sweets AWA. Minister, isn’t it the case that this AWA provides a base rate of pay of only $530.45 per week, a cut of $36.55 per week against the relevant state award? Why do you arrogantly ignore hundreds of thousands of Australians who told you today that AWAs like this cut their take-home pay?

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