Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Solomon for the question. Cost of living, and the challenges being faced by cost of living, is the interaction between prices and wages, and part of being able to deal with cost of living means that we need to get wages moving. And that needs to apply to workers, in particular those who have not had the benefits of bargaining in a significant way. And they are the workforces where there are disproportionately women: aged care, the independent education sector, early childhood education, community services, health services.

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