Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Under the coalition you hear exactly what we're hearing over there, which is more conflict. They are addicted to conflict in the workplace, and they want to hang on to it. We actually want to bring in more agreements between employers and employees.

For the coalition, it is never the right time for a pay rise. For years they told us that low unemployment would deliver pay rises. We now have low unemployment and we're not getting the pay rises going on with it. We saw Senator Birmingham on Insiders yesterday, mumbling and fumbling his way through the answer to a question of how you get wage rises moving. (Time expired)