Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

And she is full of policy—policy that supports working people in Australia! Like Senator Polley and everyone else over here, during the campaign I was incredibly fortunate to join retail, banking and hospitality workers outside the Stafford shopping centre on Brisbane's north side to launch this policy on behalf of the government. I can assure you that the announcement was well received by those workers and was quite obviously well received by the Australian voting public. At the time, it was clear that the coalition took a different view on penalty rates.

Former Liberal leader Peter Dutton—remember him—confirmed it when he said:

We don't propose any departure from the current arrangements.

The person over there who kept predicting we'd return to the Dark Ages was proven wrong by the Australian people.