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

(—) (): I thank Senator Stewart for the supplementary question. We've been focused on getting wages moving again since we came to government because we inherited an economy and policies from the former government that had low wages as a deliberate design feature of their economic architecture, and we will never let you forget it. You had minimum wage submissions that had whole sections on the importance of low-wage work. This is what you were when you were in government. We have been putting in place changes. Aged-care workers are finally getting the recognition and respect they deserve, with a fully funded 15 per cent wage increase. It's highly feminised, low-paid work that had led to significant workforce issues, which led to an aged-care system which the royal commission itself characterised as a 'system of neglect'. That is what you oversaw. We have put in place measures— (Time expired)