Emma McBride (Dobell, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Mental Health) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. The government's own budget papers forecast a cut to real wages over the next four years. For a worker in health care and social assistance, that amounts to a cut in real wages of around $6,900. How do you rack up a trillion dollar debt, yet still cut workers' wages?

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