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

What I would say is that Australians can trust the Albanese Labor government to help them earn more and keep more of they earn because that is what we have done. That is what we have done. We have seen wages growing. The government has delivered tax cuts for every Australian taxpayer, and we are building on that progress.

Last week the minister for industrial relations introduced a bill in the House to protect—Senator Cash, you will like this—the penalty rates and overtime rates of award reliant workers. We know these last three years have been difficult for many hardworking Australians, and we also know that low wages were a deliberate design feature of the coalition's economic policy. Unlike them, we have advocated every single year since coming to government for increases to the minimum wage for almost three million workers and, as a result, they are better off by— (Time expired)