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

I thank the member for Hawke—someone who came to this place campaigning to get wages moving and is now part of a government that wants people to earn more and keep more of what they earn. It was no accident that we had a decade of wage stagnation. There are decisions that governments take that determine whether or not wages move. If you don't advocate for a pay rise for low-paid workers in the annual wage review, if you don't advocate for a pay rise for aged-care workers, if you see a broken bargaining system and you refuse to act to fix it—

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