Page 2104 - Week 07 - Thursday, 20 August 2020

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It is not about the pay system, which is HRIMS, and is due for delivery of payroll in the first quarter of next year. Again, if Mrs Dunne paid more attention to her shadow portfolio, she would know about that digital health record.

Question put:

That the amendments be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 12

Noes 9

Ms J Burch

Mr Pettersson

Miss C Burch

Mr Parton

Ms Cheyne

Mr Ramsay

Mrs Dunne

Mr Wall

Ms Cody

Mr Rattenbury

Mrs Jones

Mr Gentleman

Mr Steel

Mrs Kikkert

Mr Gupta

Ms Stephen-Smith

Ms Lawder

Ms Le Couteur

Ms Lee

Ms Orr

Mr Milligan

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MR WALL (Brindabella) (3.47): I will speak to the motion. What we have just seen here today on the other side of this chamber is quite the astonishing cover-up exercise by the champions of the worker. Just paint the picture for a moment, if this was a private employer that was alleged to be doing this, what they would be doing and what they would be screaming about in this place and publicly, in the name of standing up for a worker and trying to prevent wage theft. When they preside over it themselves, they are absolutely comfortable with covering up their actions, saying, “Nothing to see here, move along people, this is not an issue.” But say that to the doctors that are not being paid adequately, say that to the doctors who are working 90-plus hours a week and are not being paid accordingly for it. This is what we are seeing from Labor.

It is sheer hypocrisy that they will stand up for the worker in the private sector, but they fail to do so when it is their own employee in the government sector. That is just Labor in a nutshell.

I think it would be remiss of me, as well, not to mention the Greens in this. It would be remiss not to mention Mr Rattenbury and Ms Le Couteur, who are aiding and abetting this wage theft that is being presided over in ACT Health. The Greens are complicit. I think Unions ACT may have put a piece of material out earlier in this term, our partners in crime. If I am not mistaken, I believe that it was featuring your favourite, Ms Rachel Stephen-Smith.

Ms Stephen-Smith: It featured on television recently, yes.

MR WALL: Yes, partners in crime, when it came to claims of wage theft.

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