Senate debates
Tuesday, 18 August 2026
Questions without Notice
Wages and Salaries
3:02 pm
Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) | Hansard source
The Albanese Labor government is backing workers with tax cuts, higher wages and a strengthened superannuation system. The Liberals, Nationals and One Nation will take an axe to your wages and superannuation if they get the chance. We know that Senator Bragg told the National Press Club that contributing to your super was a loss of liberty. He also said he wished he'd done more to stop the madness during his time inside the Morrison government. I don't know what he must think about what's going on over there at the moment! Senator Bragg then went on to call for a revolution, call the Labor Party communists eight or nine times and compare young workers to cats and dogs. It really was a big day out, wasn't it? It's as unhinged as Senator Roberts calling same job, same pay poison or Senator Hanson saying women only get pregnant for the money. This is the divisive and chaotic coalition that is coming for Australian workers because they can only form government with each other, and they share a desire to cut Australians' wages, superannuation and cost-of-living relief. Only Labor is delivering the real change Australians need. (Time expired)
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