House debates

Monday, 13 November 2023

Questions without Notice

Wages

2:45 pm

Photo of Anthony AlbaneseAnthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I'm talking about wages. For workers on the minimum wage, an increase of nearly $3 an hour is what we have done. On 1 July, 2.4 million workers on awards got a 5.75 per cent pay rise—the largest increase since 2009. But there's legislation before the parliament to stop loopholes, to stop people working side by side who—

Honourable members interjecting

But of course they won't support that because they wouldn't even take action about wage theft. They would not take action about wage theft when they were in government. (Time expired)

Honourable members interjecting

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