Senate debates

Tuesday, 4 February 2025

Questions without Notice

Wages

3:02 pm

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

because we remember it. Funnily enough, I haven't seen Australia go back to the Dark Ages, and nor did the independent review of our laws.

Mr Dutton claimed that our secure jobs, better pay laws were radical and that he was deeply concerned that it was going to result in higher wages—what a terrible thing that would be. Mr Dutton didn't want to see higher wages. Well, our laws are delivering higher wages. That's exactly the way it should be, and you voted against every move we did to make it happen. (Time expired)

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