Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is again to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I refer to the minister’s last answer, and I refer again to the ABS data which prove women on AWAs earn less per hour than women on collective agreements. Minister, given these statistics and given the minister’s refusal to direct the Office of the Employment Advocate to release AWA statistics, on what factual basis is it possible for the minister to claim AWAs are good for women? It is just empty rhetoric, isn’t it?

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