Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

What I can guarantee is this: we will deliver on the commitment we made to the Australian people before the election to remove your unfair extreme Work Choices laws. I can guarantee that we will deliver on our commitment to ensure that productivity increases and productivity gains are the incentives for wage increases under our system. As I have said, under our system, a wage outcome in one enterprise or sector cannot automatically flow into another. This government understands the importance of government across the range of portfolios, including in industrial relations. We understand the importance of fighting inflation. That is why we put in place a range of savings measures and that is why we will put in place, as we committed, an industrial relations system in which productivity gains are the incentive for wage increases and in which wage bargaining occurs at the workplace.