Senate debates

Tuesday, 11 August 2026

Questions without Notice

Wages and Salaries

2:46 pm

Photo of Murray WattMurray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) | Hansard source

It sounds like Senator Canavan's got a problem with that. We've invested more than any previous government to ensure workers in female dominated occupations like aged care and early childhood education and care are compensated appropriately to deliver the world-class care our parents, grandparents and kids deserve.

Of course, there are some people in this place who think that women should continue being paid less than men over the course of their careers. Senator Hanson thinks the gender pay gap is 'all smoke and mirrors', as she said at the Press Club in June, and she's even said that women 'get themselves pregnant for the money'—this coming from the party that the Liberals want to form government with, because we all know that One Nation can't win without the Liberals and the Liberals can't govern without One Nation.

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