Senate debates

Tuesday, 24 March 2026

Regulations and Determinations

Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes — Cash Acceptance) Regulations 2025; Disallowance

8:10 pm

Photo of Corinne MulhollandCorinne Mulholland (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I would love to. It would be my honour. Just to finish off that point, in the spirit of decent politics, we're talking about One Nation bringing a disallowance motion into this chamber purporting to stand up for cash. That legislation exists; that regulation is there. To move a disallowance motion will remove that right to access cash, to use cash—in petrol stations, in grocery stores. That's exactly what they want to do. We know that, when they come into this place and talk about cash being king, they only care about putting more cash in the back pocket of Gina Rinehart. At every opportunity that One Nation have had in this chamber to back in the battlers and the working people of Australia, who they come to this place and tell us they represent, they have voted against their interests—voted against penalty rates, voted against same job, same pay.

You voted against same job, same pay. You want to talk about the coalminers in Central Queensland, the people you are quite willing to accept are being underpaid by $30,000 a year. You are quite happy for workers in Central Queensland working underground to be getting paid less just because their company found a loophole.

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