Page 2106 - Week 07 - Thursday, 20 August 2020
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We should do that; but remember that junior doctors work unsociable hours 365 days a year, not just over the summer, all the time. In (c) she called on the government to continue to implement the local jobs code and to ensure that ACT government works only go to businesses with the highest labour and ethical standards.
But the ACT government, when it comes to Canberra Health Services, has traduced those highest labour and ethical standards.
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, I will come back to you with a warning next time.
MRS DUNNE: In another debate, about a year earlier, there was this little gem. I like to have a bound Hansard. It makes you feel like you have got something of real gravitas to say. There was real gravitas on this occasion:
… we … as a nation must ask the question, At what point do we say no to wage theft and exploitation? Is it a small mum and dad business trying to make ends meet? Is it a bustling cafe not paying penalty rates? Is it a celebrity chef with their own personal brand? Or is it a multinational company employing hundreds of Australians? Regardless of who does it and for what reason, wage theft is just that—theft. The key problem with failing to enforce employers to pay employees what they are owed is that if you ignore it at one level, it only makes it harder to enforce the rules on other employers.
Thank you, Ms Orr. You had better have a word to your predecessor, who is currently the health minister, because—
Mr Gentleman: On a point of order, Madam Speaker, comments are supposed to be directed through the Speaker, not to individual members.
MADAM SPEAKER: On the point of order, you will refer to people by their full name, Mrs Dunne.
MRS DUNNE: If that is the best Mr Gentleman can do, I am happy to talk to him. Through you, Madam Speaker, Ms Orr should speak to her predecessor in the job that she has and—
Ms Orr: On a point of order, I believe that Mrs Dunne—and I seek your clarification on this—started off by saying that it was Ms Cody she was quoting.
MRS DUNNE: No, I did not.
MADAM SPEAKER: No, it was Ms Orr.
Ms Orr: Sorry, I did say that I sought your clarification.
MRS DUNNE: From the big book, it is you, page 522.
MADAM SPEAKER: Have you concluded, Mrs Dunne?
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