Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the statement by Spotlight about its 2c an hour AWA, ‘We are doing what we were told to do by the legislators.’ I also refer the Prime Minister to the comment made last night on the ABC Lateline program by Professor Ian Harper, chair of the government’s low pay commission, that the government’s legislation—and I quote—‘pushes’ the low pay commission to reduce the minimum wage in real terms. Prime Minister, last night, didn’t we just see the second leg of your 2c an hour wages race to the bottom, cutting the minimum wage?

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