House debates Questions without Notice

Wages

Tuesday, 25 October 2022 House of Representatives

Mr Tony Burke

Mr Tony Burke Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

3:14 pm

I thank the member for Chisholm for the question—somebody who, before she came here, was fighting for people's wages to get moving and continues that fight now she's here as a member in parliament. We're delivering this week on exactly what we said we'd do, which was that we would get wages moving after a decade where they had been kept deliberately low. When those opposite, and anyone, want to talk about cost of living, cost of living deals with both prices and wages. When wages are stagnant, people don't have a chance of being able to keep up.

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