Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The Productivity Commission is currently examining this issue as part of its inquiry into the workplace relations framework. If you accept the premise of the Leader of the Opposition's question, penalty rates are apparently something that no-one can ever consider. This is a sort of a no-man's-land—you cannot go there, stay away! This is at odds with what his colleagues have been doing. I have mentioned his own not-especially-distinguished record on penalty rates. Consider the member for Watson and his former union, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association trade union—

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