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

The first thing is that we are going to keep working to lift wages, unlike you, unlike you. We'll keep working to bring down costs, unlike you, unlike you. We'll keep working to strengthen Medicare, unlike you, unlike you. And we'll keep building more homes, unlike you and unlike you. That is what we will do. I say to those opposite, who come in here and talk about the cost of living: you should be upfront with the Australian people and look them in the eye and say, 'We want you to earn less,' because that is your policy. We know, out of the mouth of the shadow finance minister, that a wage rise would be absolutely the wrong thing to do—that's what she said.