House debates Questions without Notice

Budget

Monday, 24 May 2021 House of Representatives

Ed Husic

Ed Husic Chifley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry and Innovation

2:21 pm

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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