Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for her question. I had reached for my file on education. I thought the question might have been about education, but it was not. I am happy to address the question that she has raised. The budget each year takes into account all the various parameter estimates that need to be considered to provide the forward estimate forecast, whether it is on revenue or on these other matters, and these will all be considered. I find it interesting that the Labor Party come into this place and walk away from defending the independent commission. I think about history, and I go back to when they were in government and when penalty rates were cut from 200 per cent to 175 per cent. I do not remember the Labor Party at that time saying: 'No. That decision should be reversed, and legislation should be brought in.' When those opposite in the Labor Party were in government and facing the first cut in penalty rates—initiated at that time by the modernisation of the award process—they did not say that then. But there was another opportunity—

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