QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Prime Minister) (14:03): I thank the member for Bonner for her question. Labor is growing an economy that works for people, not the other way around, and that strategy has Australia performing strongly right across the board. Australia is indeed growing faster than all the G7 countries—Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States of America.

Unemployment is lower than Canada, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. We have a higher participation rate than all G7 countries, and stronger employment growth than six of the G7 nations, and, just last week, Australia's stable economic outlook and AAA credit rating was once again confirmed. That is not to say, though, that there aren't cost-of-living pressures in the economy, which is why we understand that we need to deliver on cost-of-living measures.

We understand, as well, that Australia's success comes directly from working people, from their hard work and from their aspiration to build a better life. That's why we're about delivering real change, and that begins with a fair go at work, with penalty rates being protected, with wage theft now a crime. If you work the same job, now you get the same pay.

Today I met with the national executive of the SDA, looking after people who work in retail, and they told me about examples of increases in salary of up to and above 30 per cent as a direct result of same job, same pay, where people who are working together, with the same experience, with the same supervisor, working the same hours, were getting paid differential rates—unfairness in the workplace, due to a manipulation of the system.

We've stopped it, and it's making a real difference to working people. Just yesterday, we delivered new minimum standards and new minimum pay for gig economy workers. Today, we have introduced our legislation locking in wage justice for early childhood educators, to deliver a growing, skilled workforce.

That is how Labor governs: building our resilience, backing aspiration and delivering real change, here and now, while always keeping an eye on the horizon, to set Australia up for a stronger future.