QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (14:51): Thanks, Senator Brown. From 1 July this year, almost three million minimum-wage and award-reliant workers in Australia received a real wage increase of at least 4.75 per cent. Since the Albanese Labor government came to office, we've advocated for Australian workers at every single Annual Wage Review, five years in a row.

As I was saying in the previous question, we didn't see that happen once under the coalition, and we know we would never see it from One Nation because they have always voted against the laws that Labor has brought in to see wages rise. We know, on this side of the chamber, that wage growth is important to maintain consumer spending in the economy, which is a crucial driver of economic growth.

And the proof is in the pudding. Since the real minimum-wage increase that you don't support took effect on 1 July last year, we've seen jobs growth and unemployment remaining low by historical standards. But all of this, we know— Senator Hume: How about living standards?

If jobs and growth only kept up with— The PRESIDENT: Senator Hume, stop! Senator WATT: is at risk from the antiworker coalition of the Liberals, Nationals and One Nation. The PRESIDENT: Senator Brown, second supplementary?