Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

I have something else to ask. Did you actually take this into consideration: if you're going to increase wages—and that's what you want to do, to increase wages—there's also a plus-plus-plus on top of that. So it's not just wages; enterprise bargaining means that they could bargain for four days a week or they could bargain for extra holidays. This is all added cost to the employer. But if they actually do increase their wages, have you considered having negotiations or talks with the states? What this is going to do is put added cost onto businesses with payroll tax in the states. Have you taken this into consideration, and have you actually tried to negotiate with the states to look at the payroll tax?