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

My question is again to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to comments on Sunday by the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, about the government’s industrial relations changes:

I don’t like, particularly like the new IR laws because I’m frightened they could be used to force down minimum wages.

Given that the government submissions to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission over the last 10 years would have seen the minimum wage reduced by $2,600 a year—

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