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 and it follows on from his answer to a previous question, in which he referred to his so-called truth about AWAs. Isn’t it the case that under the Serco Sodexho Defence Services AWA at Duntroon someone working a regular 38-hour week from Monday to Friday would be worse off by more than $50 a week, $2,600 a year, or more than $13,000 over the five years of that agreement? Why does the Prime Minister deliberately pretend that working Australians have choice when the only choice is a wage cut—in this case, ending up more than $13,000 worse off? Why does the Prime Minister persist in misleading the Australian people about AWAs?

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