Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I'm happy to confirm for Senator McAllister that, on the coalition side, we don't subscribe to the socialist planned economy model, where the government centrally prescribes what the wages in the economy should be. We happen to believe, if you help business be more successful, they'll hire more people and they'll have to pay them more in wages because there is more competition for workers. (Time expired)