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

All the way along that bench over there are the key barriers to creating jobs and getting wages moving again. As you mentioned, already Mr Dutton has promised to axe many of our workplace changes, even when the independent review found that they are making a positive difference to Australians.

While our government wants to see Australians earn more and keep more of what they earn, we know that the coalition had an antiworker agenda when they were in government. They voted against every single one of our changes when they were in opposition and now, as the election approaches, they're promising the same low-wages policy they had last time they were in office. Already, they've promised to wind back protections for casual workers and scrap the right to disconnect, and they have opened the door to weakening unfair dismissal protections and getting rid of our same job, same pay laws.

At a time when Australians are doing it tough, Mr Dutton and the coalition want to make things worse. There is no doubt at all that, with the wage cuts from Mr Dutton, you will be worse off under the coalition. We'll certainly be reminding people of that in the next few months.