Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) | Hansard source

Unfortunately, we know the opposition don't like being told in prose that they're about cutting wages. It seems they don't like it in poetry either. I would sing, except I'm not allowed to! In any way, you don't like being told that you're going to cut workers' wages if you get half the chance, just like you've always done when you've been in government.

Now, of course, it's not just poetry that hardworking Australians get from this government. They also get help to achieve wage increases and tax cuts.

Seriously, they do get help, Senator Cash. I know that's a foreign notion to you—the idea that a government would help workers with pay rises. We know that that's what you think because you've voted against every single one of them. But do you know what workers like Sunitha, an early educator from Victoria Park in Western Australia, have to say about pay rises? She says that the news of the pay rise for early educators is amazing. She's had calls from co-workers who'd left early education who are now wanting to come back. Under Labor, workers will earn more and keep more of what they earn. Under you lot, they will work longer for less. (Time expired)