Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Of course it's our policy. Of course it is our policy that wages not go backwards. We have delivered on this. In the first national wage case that came before the Fair Work Commission after we came to government we put a submission to the Fair Work Commission on that very point. As I said in my previous answer, that was in stark contrast to those opposite's position in government, where a design feature of their economic policy was to keep downward pressure on wages.

There is a new national wage case. We are preparing. We have an excellent minister, Minister Burke, in this portfolio area. He is in the process of preparing his submissions and— (Time expired)