Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, the government's own budget papers forecast a cut to real wages over the next four years. For a manufacturing worker, that amounts to a cut in real wages of about $7,800. How do you rack up $1 trillion of debt yet still cut workers' wages?

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