Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Has the Treasury provided advice to the government on its minimum wage submission that includes a recommended specific dollar increase? Will the Prime Minister confirm that the government is planning not to recommend that specific dollar increase in its submission? Why, if the fight against inflation is the government’s No. 1 priority, does the government lack the courage to follow Treasury’s advice? Or does the Prime Minister prefer that the Fair Pay Commission accept the ACTU’s ambit claim?

Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There goes the compassion. It didn’t last long.

Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It did not take until the third question for compassion on the part of those opposite to expire. Our position is that working families deserve a decent outcome, a fair and balanced outcome, from this upcoming case. The government’s position in response to the case has yet to be determined. When it is, the country will know about it.