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

Unlike those opposite, we're not going to be focused on political fights. We are going to be focused on fighting inflation, which is the key driver behind the cost-of-living challenges that so many Australians have. Unlike those opposite, we are also not going to be running a low-wage economy. We're not going to be holding wages deliberately low, because we understand that also matters when it comes to the cost of living.

An opposition senator interjecting

I'll take the intervention from the shadow minister, who said, 'That pushes up inflation too.' We have the Mathias Cormann line here—that in fact there's a deliberate design feature of the Australian economy to hold wages low. I don't think that should have been scripted for you. (Time expired)