Jess Walsh (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Early Childhood Education) | Hansard source

We support the young Australians who are starting their first job, building their skills, building their careers, building their future and getting ahead. The Albanese Labor government is committed to helping them do just that. How? This way—on our watch, the minimum wage is now more than $12,000 a year higher, and it is $1,000 a week for the first time. That's because we've backed five consecutive increases to the minimum wage—

And I'll take the interjection. You think that is a joke? We think that is progress for Australian workers. As the Prime Minister said, we absolutely back higher minimum wages for Australians—

Opposition senators interjecting—