Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister for Emergency Management) (14:22): Thank you, Senator White. Senator White, along with many people on this side of the chamber, has dedicated her working life to assisting working people, including right here in the Senate. You're right, Senator White: one of the best ways we can help Australians deal with cost-of-living pressures is by helping them get a pay rise. So, I'm proud to say that, under the Albanese government, we are seeing wages get moving again. Since coming to government a year ago, we've overseen the largest increase in jobs of any new government on record and the fastest annual growth in wages in over a decade. Opposition senators interjecting— Senator WATT: We know you don't like higher wages. We know you don't. One time it's spreadsheets, then it's higher wages—the things that set you off! After a decade of the coalition's deliberate policy of keeping wages low, under the Albanese government we are now starting to see wages grow. Through our submission to the Annual Wage Review, we advocated for a real increase for Australia's lowest-paid workers. Opposition senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Minister Watt, please resume your seat. Order! Minister, please continue. Senator WATT: I'll tell you what, the things that set you people off! Higher wages, of all the things! Through our submission to the annual wage review we advocated for a real increase for Australia's lowest-paid workers and the Fair Work Commission's annual wage review's 5.75 per cent increase to awards is the biggest increase in history and will help 2.7 million low-paid workers. We've also delivered important reforms that are getting wages moving through the secure jobs, better pay bill—opposed by those over there—and we supported the aged-care work value case which delivered a 15 per cent pay increase to some of the hardest-working Australians—something the coalition refused to do. I have noticed the various comments of Senator Cash, as the IR spokesperson, about these issues. She warned us when passing this legislation last year that it would potentially close down Australia. I don't know. I'm having a look around. It looks pretty open to me. She also said that our changes would take us back to the Dark Ages. I don't think they had iPhones in the Dark Ages, but apparently that's where we're going to end up. (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator White, your first supplementary question?