Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

(—) (): I don't have the benefit of the material that Senator Farrell has referred to. In the absence of that, I will continue to refer the senator to the facts that exist within the government's legislation. Our reforms will incentivise permanent work, complete with paid leave entitlements in our vital retail and hospitality sectors, as well as help give more hours of work for the more than 100,000 part-time employees in those sectors which are underemployed under the system that those opposite actually set up. Again, they don't seem to want to fix that; they don't seem to see the underemployed as important. Our reforms are focused on boosting pay by reinvigorating an enterprise bargaining system that, on average, pays 69 per cent, or $500 more a week than award wages, but that has seen the total number of agreements more than halve, from 25,000 down to 10,000, under the broken system that was put in place by those opposite. Even former Prime Minister Keating thinks the current system, as put in place by those opposite— (Time expired)