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

I hear the opposition saying 'no'. They say no to low-paid workers getting a pay rise because they say no to everything.

Now, compare that with those opposite, who have never once argued for a rise in the minimum wage. Of course, their deliberate design feature of their economic policy was low wages. It took the coalition their entire wasted decade in office to lift the minimum wage by as much as we have in our first term.

Opposition senators interjecting—

I know you hate to hear it, but when you turn up at the Fair Work Commission, and you advocate for people to have a pay rise, it turns out that that can happen. That's helping them with the cost-of-living pressures they're experiencing.