Tony Sheldon (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Of course, they don't want to hear the reality of what they're not doing about cost of living, because it's a painful point. It's a painful point when they opposed bill after bill after bill. They opposed worker right after worker right after worker right. They opposed every suggestion from good employers about how to get the economy working together. They oppose it because they always go for the big end of town to make sure that, as far as they're concerned, they're looked after instead of the rest of the community and good employers who want to work together to make this country more productive, more efficient and fairer, with better business, better wages and better rights. Those are things they just can't stand.