QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator PAYMAN (Western Australia—Australia's Voice Whip) (15:39): Minister, workers and taxpayers are paying millions of dollars to fund an office of 16 full-time workers who've not referred a single case, as we know it, since Senate estimates in February. That's not a single case of wage theft to police, while workers are losing millions more in wage theft that goes unpunished.

Minister, was criminalising wage theft a performative reform, given it is costing workers more than it has returned to them?