QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (14:46): Thanks, Senator Grogan. Under the Albanese Labor government, the gender pay gap is at its lowest level on record. Australian women are now earning more than $250 a week more than they were before we came to government.

We've invested more than any previous government— Senator Canavan: How much extra are they paying? Senator WATT: It sounds like Senator Canavan's got a problem with that. We've invested more than any previous government to ensure workers in female dominated occupations like aged care and early childhood education and care are compensated appropriately to deliver the world-class care our parents, grandparents and kids deserve.

Of course, there are some people in this place who think that women should continue being paid less than men over the course of their careers. Senator Hanson thinks the gender pay gap is 'all smoke and mirrors', as she said at the Press Club in June, and she's even said that women 'get themselves pregnant for the money'—this coming from the party that the Liberals want to form government with, because we all know that One Nation can't win without the Liberals and the Liberals can't govern without One Nation.

The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Minister. Senator Grogan, second supplementary?