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

) ( ): Thank you, and I will take the comment from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Wong who said, 'Please keep talking about the issue.' I would be delighted to keep talking about the issue.

Let's talk about the deals that are done, the enterprise bargaining deals between the big unions and the big businesses. For a number of years now, we know that big unions and big businesses have been getting together and they have been happily, openly, trading away Sunday penalty rates at the expense of small businesses.

Yet, again, I am going to have to disclose that it is the opposition leader, the current opposition leader, Mr Shorten, who has perfected the art of negotiating away the Sunday penalty rates for the lowest-paid workers in this country. We all know about Cleanevent but do we also know: he did the same thing when he was negotiating for the low-paid workers at Chiquita Mushrooms— (Time expired)