Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I have conducted a price watch in my electorate since 1993—well over a decade—and, do you know what, it is one of the ways I stay in touch with my electorate, absolutely, and it is how people like you get so out of touch; it is how those opposite get so out of touch. They do not have a clue what life is like around the kitchen table. They have not got the faintest idea. And it is because they are so out of touch that they brought in Work Choices. Only somebody terminally out of touch could bring in Work Choices to rip away at the wages and working conditions of Australian working families. They have learnt nothing at all. They have demonstrated they are completely out of touch with the lives of average Australians. If they think that the average Australian who goes shopping thinks that those tips are ludicrous or laughable, they have not got a clue about what is going on in Australia.

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