Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

We have inherited a very challenging set of economic challenges from those opposite as a result of nine years of wasted opportunities, wrong priorities and a former government that was determined to make sure that people's wages went backwards. We have come in dealing with higher-than-expected inflation, and we are determined to get wages moving by submissions to the Fair Work case and by supporting wage claims like those of aged-care workers that are currently before the Fair Work Commission. These are the things that a government can do: it can help to shape the policies that deliver wage outcomes for people. We do want them to get moving, but we are facing—