Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and International Security) Share this | Hansard source

My question again is to the Prime Minister. It relates to his previous answer, in which he referred extensively to his government’s industrial relations legislation. Prime Minister, is it not the case that the Office of the Employment Advocate statistics for the September quarter show that, since the commencement of the government’s industrial relations legislation, the biggest uptake of AWAs has been in the retail trade and hospitality? Prime Minister, is it not also the case that the labour price index for this September quarter shows that, since the commencement of the government’s industrial relations legislation, wages growth in these two areas has been less than the inflation rate? Prime Minister, is it not the case that this is the result of the government’s industrial relations legislation?

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