Jamie Briggs (Mayo, Liberal Party, Chairman of the Scrutiny of Government Waste Committee) Share this | Hansard source

It was the workplace relations reform bill, Member for Wakefield. It put in place the minimum wage in Commonwealth law for the first time. The member for Wakefield was going on about how this was an important thing in his contribution on this bill. The point that the member for Wakefield does not make is that with industrial relations in this country, as across the globe, there is balance. There is a balance between those on the inside of the employment market, the employed, and those on the outside of the employment market—this category is growing—called the unemployed.

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