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SenateMonday 17 August 2026

QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (15:02): Labor is proudly pro-worker and proudly project-superannuation. How about that one, Senator Bragg? But if the Liberals and One Nation were to get their way on wages and super, it would absolutely decimate the economic security and retirement incomes of millions of Australian workers.

And that's because the Liberals and One Nation share a divisive antiworker and antisuperannuation ideology; Australian workers would be much worse off under the Liberals and One Nation. In a recent interview on Sky News, as it then was, Senator Bragg was asked: 'On industrial relations, obviously we had the Work Choices debacle. Are you looking to go back in that direction?' And Senator Bragg's response was, 'It's time for some risk.' Well, we know that the only people at risk under the Liberals and One Nation are Australian workers.

What those workers can be assured of is that the Albanese Labor government will always have their interests at heart because Labor is making sure that Australians earn more and keep more of what they earn, while the Liberals, Nationals and One Nation want to take it away. Senator Wong: I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.

SourceSenate, Monday 17 August 2026 — official recordTA-260817-senate-84cee98f75c2:s205