QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (15:01): Thanks, Senator Sheldon. Well, on this side of the chamber, we believe that every Australian worker deserves fair wages and conditions as well as protection from unfair treatment. We've backed that up with real action, including getting more people into work, providing or advocating for wage rises, closing the gender pay gap, enshrining penalty rates in law and ensuring workers who do the same job get the same pay.

But with One Nation now leading the Liberal Party on policy ideas, Australian workers' wages and conditions are under threat. We know that One Nation have consistently opposed wage rises for workers. They want to get rid of penalty rates altogether.

And, of course, their leader, Pauline Hanson, thinks Australian workers are lazy. If you think it's all sounding a bit familiar, that's because it is. These are all antiworker positions that have been put time and time again by One Nation's allies in the Liberal Party.

The Albanese Labor government is delivering the real change that Australian workers need. The only change the Liberals, Nationals and One Nation want for workers is to make life harder. The PRESIDENT: Senator Sheldon, second supplementary?