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

Whether it is the higher wages for those industries which employ many Australian women, whether it's early childhood educators or aged-care workers, the movement in the gender pay gap, which I know many on your side—I think this was described as a useless statistic by Senator Canavan, but what it actually means and what this actually has to do with, Senator Ruston, is the position of women in Australia. If you cared about the position of women in Australia, you would actually have supported some of these measures, but you do not. You have not been supportive of the gender pay gap improving. (Time expired)