Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. When asked yesterday whether the Prime Minister supports a pay cut in real terms for those on the minimum wage, the minister said:

So far as I am aware, there are no proceedings currently before the Fair Work Commission of the kind that you have suggested.

On the very same day the government filed its 85-page submission to the Fair Work Commission annual wage review 2017. Can the minister confirm he is so out of touch he was unaware that the Fair Work Commission is currently conducting its annual wage review and that his own government was making a submission?