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

I think what I said earlier was that the evidence shows that, since we made previous workplace relations reforms, Australian wages have risen in real terms for seven quarters in a row for the first time in many years since we saw the real wage falls under the coalition. I would expect that we will keep track of what wages are doing after these laws pass, in the same way that we've kept track of the impact on wages of our previous reforms.