Senate debates

Thursday, 20 August 2026

Questions without Notice

Wages and Salaries

3:40 pm

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

We're hearing from those obstacles right now. The biggest obstacle is all those opposite, who always oppose higher wages for young Australians. Everybody knows what young people got from the coalition government. They spent a decade deliberately keeping wages low—and they were proud of it. One Nation are cut from the same cloth. They don't back young workers either. They opposed increases to the minimum wage. They want to scrap penalty rates. They want to make it easier to sack workers—and we know who goes first; it's young workers. They tried to block better job security for casuals. They voted against—

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