Peter Khalil (Wills, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

We all know that this Sunday 700,000 workers in hospitality, fast food, retail and pharmacy industries will suffer another cut to their penalty rates. For those workers and the 4½ million working Australians across other industries like emergency services—our first responders—nursing, manufacturing and tourism, penalty rates are essential to making ends meet. We know that, and many of us in this place have worked in some of those industries—

Mr Wallace interjecting—

despite what the member for Fisher says. We know how hard these people work and we know how low some of their wages are—

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