Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Lundy is the voice of the Financial Services Council. I talked to the Financial Services Council too. They had some good views, but guess what—they are not representatives of workers; they are representatives of financial services institutions. What I am telling you now is that the Senate yesterday put the interests of workers first. You can come in here any day you like and talk up the interests of financial services institutions—that is fine—but we are in here standing up for the best interests of Australia and the best interests of Australian workers. Senator Carr objected to my characterisation of what the Leader of the Opposition said, so why will those opposite not promise that in government they will roll back the decision we made yesterday, why will they not promise that they will accelerate the increase to 12 per cent again, and then show us how they are going to pay for it. (Time expired)