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

Zero! In nine hours! So you might want to do the maths on how likely they are to delay this, how long they'll try to keep this going. In nine hours of debate, those opposite are doing everything they can—as if 10 years of delay wasn't enough—to delay every extra minute, every extra hour they possibly can.

Well, this government's view is that 10 years of delay is long enough. People should not have to wait longer for gender equality to be an objective of the Fair Work Act. People should not have to wait longer for the sunsetting of agreements that have been in place since the WorkChoices era. People should not have to wait longer for a bargaining system that works and gets wages moving. People should not have to wait longer for the banning of pay secrecy clauses. People should not have to wait longer for it to be illegal to advertise a job for less than the legal minimum wage.

Those opposite dedicated 10 years to keeping wages deliberately low. Once secure jobs, better pay goes through, we will have getting wages moving as a deliberate design feature of this government.

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