Jason Falinski (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Seriously, this is what Labor has lowered itself to: 'Now we are going to make technical points of order because we don't want to hear the truth.' The truth is obvious to any Australian with two ears and a brain, and that is that under your Fair Work Act their wages have gone down, they haven't been able to find new jobs, and companies have been hampered and constrained by red tape. The whole idea is that four wise men—I notice those opposite appointed all men—in Melbourne doing the best they possibly can, though they are not artificial intelligence yet, can design work that applies equally to someone working in a cafe in Broome and someone working in an aged-care centre in the southern suburbs of Hobart. These are discussions best left to those working at those sites and their employers. The whole idea is that all Australians are the same according to those opposite and their industry super mates who are now enforcing enterprise agreements—which, by the way, is unlawful under their laws that they operate. I call on APRA to enforce the law that they are meant to be regulating, not just look after their mates in industry super. I urge them to actually start enforcing the law and to allow Australians to get better jobs and better pay. But there is one thing they know: it's never going to happen under those opposite. (Time expired)

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