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

We know that for 10 years we had a Liberal-National party coalition government for whom low wages was a deliberate design feature of their economic policy. But things have changed under Labor. New data released by the ABS yesterday shows that annual nominal wages continue to grow above three per cent under Labor. Annual wages are growing by at least three per cent in 14 of 18 industries. Our predecessors never achieved this. At best, they could only achieve three per cent wage rises in six industries for one lonely quarter.