Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Tactical genius over there! Yet again, we see this Liberal-National party, the dregs of government, doing the only thing they know how to unite on—that is, standing up against working people. That is the only thing these divided remnants of a hapless government can actually do together—stand up against working people. That's what you've consistently done all week. It's the one thing that unites you: 'We love a deliberate design feature of our economy being low wages, and we're going to fight really hard to hold on to it.' That is what has occurred all week and that is what is occurring now.

The part of the motion before the Senate that really demonstrates the motivation of those opposite is they want to defer debate on the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill.