Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. The statistics being used in this supplementary question are from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Is the minister aware that in the last quarter, apart from wages not keeping pace with inflation, average weekly earnings have actually fallen in Tasmania by 3.2 per cent and in Victoria by 1.4 per cent? Minister, won’t Australian workers and their families have less money in their pockets this Christmas care of Work Choices?