Luke Howarth (Petrie, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I've done a lot of the things that the member opposite said that we on this side of the House have no idea about it. One of the greatest things that I've been able to see as the member for Petrie since being elected in 2013 is a seven per cent reduction in youth unemployment in my electorate. I put that down to a number of things. I have to laugh when the opposition come in here and talk about penalty rates, given that the member for Longman in March last year, at Easter time, stood in front of Coles and said, 'Thank you for working. Thank you for working at Easter. We really appreciate it,' but at the same time her union had negotiated away the penalty rates of those workers on Sundays. Her union had negotiated the rate from double time to time and a half. There was a 25 per cent reduction in the award rate, thanks to the member opposite and their union's EBA. I really don't call that looking after workers.

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