Josh Burns (Macnamara, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Well, I'm sure multicultural communities will be feeling safer after that speech!

When you change the government, you change the country. There was not one thing that those opposite did while they were in government to lift the wages of working Australians—not one thing. And yet, on this side of the House, as soon as we got into government, we advocated for the rise in the minimum wage for our lowest-paid workers. They railed against it, and then we fought for the rise in aged-care workers' wages, because we know and we are proud of our aged-care workforce. These people turned up during the pandemic to look after our oldest Australians. On this side of the House, we stand up for hardworking Australians. On this side of the House, we stand up for the wages of hardworking Australians, unlike the mob opposite.

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