Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The coming election will be a contest between two very different outcomes for our shared future as a nation. This government's actions will create two Australias. Labor's mission is to bring Australians together. One way will be a very straightforward concept: same job, same pay. Right now, labour hire firms are making a quick buck off the backs of working people, providing workers to big companies at lower wages than if the companies had directly hired them, and the companies abandon their responsibilities for decent wages and conditions in the process. It's the workers who pay the price—Australian men and women with no job security. From airport check-in counters to suburban libraries to coalmines, you can have two Australians working side by side, doing the same hours and the same job, yet one gets paid less than the other. The difference can amount to hundreds of dollars a week. That goes against who we are. As Australians, we believe in the fair go, and nothing says a fair go as simply as same job, same pay—a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. That is the fair go that a Labor government will deliver, something that's never spoken about by those opposite.