Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. It does feel a bit like we are relitigating debates from previous parliaments and prior to the election. I accept that the committee stage does allow for wide-ranging debate, but it's the question Senator Ruston puts isn't really relevant to the bill that we are debating right now in committee. So I think it's best to say Labor policy, the government's policy, is 1 July 2023. That's what we costed. That was the policy agreed by the Labor caucus. That's the policy we will implement. You will see it in a bill that comes before the parliament shortly.