Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We are a government focused on making sure we have a plan to make our economy stronger and more productive, and working with Australians, helping Australians, through challenging times. And our budget was carefully calibrated to take the pressure off the cost of living, rather than adding to it. At the same time, we're laying stronger foundations by making our economy more productive.

What we do know is that we had a wasted decade under those opposite. What we do know is that those opposite delivered the slowest decade of productivity growth in 60 years and it will take time to turn this around. What we do know is that those opposite were not supportive of wage increases for minimum wage workers. What we do know is that, for those opposite, lower wages were a deliberate design feature of their economic plan. Australians know what you were about. You're about lower wages for working people and less secure jobs. (Time expired)