Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

The government has a very clear position in relation to penalty rates. Penalty rates are to be determined by the Fair Work Commission. That is it. The government does not have a role in determining penalty rates. Anybody who says otherwise is misleading the Australian people or misleading the Senate. But I can tell you who does like to cut penalty rates, and that is, of course, the current Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten. There is only one person in Australia who has a record with an evidentiary basis you are unable to dispute who did not just cut but slashed penalty rates in a deal that he did when he was the National Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union—the same union and the same union colleagues that entered into a new agreement with Cleanevent. It removed—