Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

That is the focus of that stream. We've included a ministerial declaration for supported bargaining. This arose out of consultations that have occurred in relation to the bill. The purpose of the new power to make a declaration is to provide a final safeguard to ensure the supported bargaining stream is used in order to get wages in low-paid sectors moving. It is intended to provide some security so that we do not see a repeat of what occurred under the existing low-paid stream, where there were only four applications and no agreement ever made in reliance on low-paid authorisation.