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

under labour hire loophole, it's not $68,000; it's $52,000—that's the award rate—a $16,000 pay cut. It's good enough for them to help you onto the plane. It's good enough for them to serve you a drink while you're on the plane. It should be good enough to say they won't get a pay cut, and yet, when you commit to abolishing same job, same pay, you commit to cut people's pay. At the exact time that people are under pressure, the answer is not for people to be paid less.

We knew that he believed in cuts. We knew that when he was health minister when he cut Medicare. We knew, when they talked about their $315 billion of secret cuts, that they had more cuts in store, but now, as of today, we know the cut to workers' pay is not simply an instinct for them; it is a commitment. (Time expired)

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