Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

In relation to alternative approaches, I am. In fact, it goes to Senator Di Natale, the Leader of the Australian Greens. His preferred choice was to hire an international au pair. He chose to hire a young worker—not an Australian youth but someone from overseas—and not pay them above the minimum wage. What he did, though, was ensure they got on a plane and came to Canberra at taxpayers' expense. As someone said to me, 'Our greatest fears have been realised: the Greens have implemented a nanny state!' But, colleagues, the Greens' hypocrisy is not in short supply.