Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

Now that Senator Hanson is in here on a $200,000 base rate, she does not care about the battlers. She does not care about regional communities. She does not care about poor families or migrant families that are battling to put food on the table. She is absolutely unconcerned about the problems that there will be. What a fraud One Nation is! What a fraud of a party it is! What a fraud is the leadership that they have! They are running around this country telling people they care about the battlers, yet they would cut social security and they would cut penalty rates. Nothing could be further away from looking after battlers than what this mob are going to do over the next couple of weeks.

The government are also attacking working-class people. The Liberal Party have been attacking workers' rights and their penalty rates for as long as I can remember, and the National Party—the lapdogs of the Liberal Party—have been in there supporting them. How could any National Party member in this place support a $3½ thousand cut to the lowest paid in the community, especially in rural and regional Australia? We know the form of the Liberal Party. They spent $46 million on a rorted trade union royal commission to try to weaken the capacity of workers to bargain collectively. They set up the ABCC under Nigel Hadgkiss, the most incompetent, biased, politically motivated public servant this country has ever seen.