Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

It must be hard being a Greens senator, because every time there's good news delivered by a Labor government, you've got to find a reason to whinge about it. And you've got to be reminded that, if you're a Greens senator, all you can achieve is a whole lot of complaining rather than actually delivering the kinds of things that the Labor government is delivering.

Let me tell you what Lisa, an early childhood educator in New South Wales, had to say about the pay rise the Albanese government has just delivered. Lisa said—and I'm sure she speaks for many in her position:

This is a monumental moment. It is history making. This means I can stay in the job I love and I know that it is going to change a lot of lives, not just my own.

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We are proud to finally win the recognition that educators deserve.

You can pontificate all you want; you can complain all you want; but you will never represent people like Lisa, who actually work in this sector and deserve the pay rise that they are now getting as a direct result of an Albanese Labor government.