House debates

Wednesday, 10 May 2017

Business

Withdrawal

9:42 am

Photo of Nick ChampionNick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Double dippers. These are working mums at Coles, Woolworths and Myers. These are places where we never thought we could get paid parental leave. It was a great achievement for unions to get paid parental leave in these sectors that are dominated by working women. Yet what does this government get out there and do for them, for their hard work, for their thrift, for them showing up every day at work? They label them as rorters, frauds and double dippers.

It is just outrageous that on top of a tax to pensioners, young people and families we get this sort of surrender this morning—a half-hearted surrender. Well, it was not even that. I do not know what it was.

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