Senate debates
Thursday, 20 August 2026
Questions without Notice
Wages and Salaries
3:40 pm
Jess 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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