Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

What I would say, Senator Sharma, to those people is that they have a government who cares about working people in this country, who cares about wages, who cares about the role that service workers play in our economy, for example. We care about it so much that we've increased the wages for early childhood educators and carers. We've increased the wages for aged-care workers, and we will continue that approach. We want working people to earn more and keep more of what they earn. We want the economy to grow, and we want people to benefit from that. So our approach will be of a mature party of government that takes our role seriously, that remains united and that delivers on the commitments we took to the election. We'll continue to manage the budget in a responsible way so that the working people of this country get a fair deal, get paid appropriately for the work they do and understand that they have a government that cares about that.