Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration) Share this | Hansard source

but the truth in the submission—Senator Evans, you know it—is nicely summarised at point 11 of the executive summary. It says:

The government’s fiscal strategy—

I should give the government some credit; I thought they did not have a fiscal strategy—

will influence the government’s ability to support the sector in meeting additional wage costs.

In other words, Labor’s economic incompetence means that, despite throwing its support behind the ASU test case, they were never ever going to be in a position to fund any increase should Fair Work Australia award one. And I am not the only person who has this understanding.