Member

The real minimum wage is in fact zero and, unfortunately, that is what many young people receive when we make it too expensive to hire them. While this Government seem determined to compete with the Greens for the prize of economic illiteracy, businesses are closing, hiring is weakening, training budgets are being cut and too many young people are seeing the path into work disappear before their eyes. The country cannot afford that, and young people certainly cannot afford that. I beg to move.