Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Leader of the Opposition) (10:05): I seek leave to move the following motion:

That the House:

(1) notes that:

(a) wages growth is at record lows under this seven-year-old Government;

(b) the Reserve Bank has declared that "lower wage rises have become the new normal";

(c) the Finance Minister has said that low wages is a "deliberate design feature" of the Government's economic policies;

(d) the Parliament rejected the Government's original bill attacking working Australians just days ago;

(e) the Government is continuing its attack on the very people that work to deliver wage rises for Australians;

(f) the Government has a tactic where it first seeks to attack the organisations that defend workers' pay and conditions, and secondly will then directly attack the pay and conditions of workers; and

(g) this is another example of the Prime Minister's arrogance and hubris; and

(2) therefore, calls on this Prime Minister to listen to the Parliament, stop being so stubborn and abandon his anti-worker legislation.

Leave not granted.

Mr ALBANESE: I move:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition from moving the following motion immediately:

That the House:

(1) notes that:

(a) wages growth is at record lows under this seven-year-old Government;

(b) the Reserve Bank has declared that "lower wage rises have become the new normal";

(c) the Finance Minister has said that low wages is a "deliberate design feature" of the Government's economic policies;

(d) the Parliament rejected the Government's original bill attacking working Australians just days ago;

(e) the Government is continuing its attack on the very people that work to deliver wage rises for Australians;

(f) the Government has a tactic where it first seeks to attack the organisations that defend workers' pay and conditions, and secondly will then directly attack the pay and conditions of workers; and

(g) this is another example of the Prime Minister's arrogance and hubris; and

(2) therefore, calls on this Prime Minister to listen to the Parliament, stop being so stubborn and abandon his anti-worker legislation.

This nasty legislation is about attacking the pay and—

Mr PORTER (Pearce—Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Leader of the House) (10:08): I move:

That the Member be no longer heard.

The SPEAKER: The question is that the Leader of the Opposition be no further heard.

The House divided. [10:12]

(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)

DIVISION:AYES 71 (5 majority) NOES 66 PAIRS 0
AYES	NOES	PAIRS
Alexander, JG Allen, K Andrews, KJ Andrews, KL Archer, BK Bell, AM Broadbent, RE Buchholz, S Chester, D Christensen, GR Conaghan, PJ Connelly, V Coulton, M Drum, DK (teller) Dutton, PC Entsch, WG Evans, TM Falinski, JG Fletcher, PW Flint, NJ Frydenberg, JA Gee, AR Gillespie, DA Hammond, CM Hastie, AW Hawke, AG Hogan, KJ Howarth, LR Hunt, GA Irons, SJ Joyce, BT Kelly, C Laming, A Landry, ML Leeser, J Ley, SP Littleproud, D Liu, G Marino, NB Martin, FB McCormack, MF McIntosh, MI McVeigh, JJ Morrison, SJ Morton, B O'Brien, LS O'Brien, T Pasin, A Pearce, GB Porter, CC Price, ML Ramsey, RE (teller) Robert, SR Sharma, DN Simmonds, J Stevens, J Sukkar, MS Taylor, AJ Tehan, DT Thompson, P Tudge, AE van Manen, AJ Wallace, AB Webster, AE Wicks, LE Wilson, RJ Wilson, TR Wood, JP Wyatt, KG Young, T Zimmerman, T	Albanese, AN Aly, A Bandt, AP Bird, SL Bowen, CE Burke, AS Burney, LJ Burns, J Butler, MC Butler, TM Byrne, AM Chalmers, JE Clare, JD Coker, EA Collins, JM Conroy, PM Dick, MD Dreyfus, MA Elliot, MJ Fitzgibbon, JA Freelander, MR (teller) Georganas, S Giles, AJ Gorman, P Gosling, LJ Haines, H Hayes, CP Hill, JC Husic, EN Jones, SP Katter, RC Kearney, G Keogh, MJ Khalil, P King, CF King, MMH Leigh, AK Marles, RD McBride, EM Mitchell, BK Mitchell, RG Mulino, D Murphy, PJ Neumann, SK O'Connor, BPJ O'Neil, CE Owens, JA Payne, AE Perrett, GD Plibersek, TJ Rishworth, AL Rowland, MA Sharkie, RCC Smith, DPB Stanley, AM (teller) Steggall, Z Swanson, MJ Templeman, SR Thistlethwaite, MJ Thwaites, KL Vamvakinou, M Watts, TG Wells, AS Wilkie, AD Wilson, JH Zappia, A

Question agreed to.