Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

The government has already said that we are supporting the gender-undervaluation-of-priority-awards review. One of the reasons we're doing that is that it was a Labor government that amended the objectives of the Fair Work Act to ensure that gender equality is now an objective of the Fair Work Act. It was a Labor government that made that change in addition to the range of other changes we've undertaken to support gender equality, whether that be banning pay secrecy clauses, lifting pay for aged-care workers and now lifting pay for early childhood education and care workers. That is the reason that the gender pay gap in Australia is at the lowest level it has ever been—as a result of the actions of a Labor federal government.