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

This question is very similar to the one that was put to me by the member for Watson. Under Labor's Fair Work Act, the wages and conditions paid to employees are determined by the relevant industrial instrument. These are Labor's laws. We actually have sought to improve on those laws.

We sought to make positive changes that would help businesses to employ more Australians, would help workers to be able to achieve more and earn more. But those opposite decided not to support them and they thought that workers were collateral damage for their political objectives in scuttling the changes that we were seeking to make. Those opposite are no friends of the workers. They're no friends of the workers, and workers know that. As the member for Paterson said, Labor sound like they are whingeing and people just don't like it. She worries that Labor is sleepwalking off a cliff. That's what workers think of the Labor Party.

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