House debates

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

Questions without Notice

Budget

2:59 pm

Photo of Shayne NeumannShayne Neumann (Blair, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Defence Personnel) 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 construction worker, that amounts to a cut in real wages of around $8,300. How do you rack up a trillion dollars of debt yet still cut workers' wages?

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