Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

As I have previously indicated in this chamber, we have very clearly in mind an industrial relations system where productivity is the incentive for wage increases. We have in mind a system predicated on collective bargaining over the safety net. We have made very clear our views about the importance of driving productivity, of productivity being the incentive for wage increases. As the senator would know, today’s productivity is tomorrow’s prosperity, and that is very much the approach the government is taking.