Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister for Emergency Management) (14:50): I would be delighted, Senator Grogan, to point out how our plans for workplace laws differ from those that we've seen previously, because the contrast between the Albanese Labor government's approach and the coalition's when it comes to workplace laws could not be starker. On the one hand we have Labor wanting to get wages moving again. On the other hand we have the coalition, for whom low wages was a deliberate design feature of the economy. Under Labor, you have higher productivity for businesses, under the coalition you have lower productivity. Under Labor you have more agreements and a workplace relations law system that encourages more agreements— Opposition senators interjecting— Senator WATT: Under the coalition you hear exactly what we're hearing over there, which is more conflict. They are addicted to conflict in the workplace, and they want to hang on to it. We actually want to bring in more agreements between employers and employees. For the coalition, it is never the right time for a pay rise. For years they told us that low unemployment would deliver pay rises. We now have low unemployment and we're not getting the pay rises going on with it. We saw Senator Birmingham on Insiders yesterday, mumbling and fumbling his way through the answer to a question of how you get wage rises moving. (Time expired)