Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has simply spoken on ABC radio in Melbourne, criticising the Liberal Get together after its Victorian election defeat and championing the federal government’s industrial relations reforms.
Albanese once more congratulated Victorian Labor premier Daniel Andrews for profitable a third-straight time period and mentioned: “The Liberal Get together has failed to return to phrases with fashionable Australia, and so they proceed to cuddle as much as some far-right parts within the political system.”
He added that the Liberals had run a “detrimental marketing campaign” and attacked Information Corp publications for “an appalling marketing campaign, together with in fact, having unique interviews with a bunch of stairs, and ridiculous tales that weren’t related for Victoria’s future.”
Albanese additionally mentioned Australia was “a great distance” from a wage-inflation spiral because the Labor authorities pushes to legislate its industrial relations reforms which deal with boosting employee pay.
“I do discover that the employer organisations I’ve heard remark, in criticism of this, are usually saying on the one hand, ‘no, it received’t get wages acquired transferring’. And alternatively, ‘it’ll get wages transferring in a means that’s too quick’. Properly, they’ll’t have it each methods. I believe this will get the steadiness proper, Albanese mentioned.
The prime minister additionally referenced the NSW rail dispute when arguing for the commercial relations reforms.
“One of many issues that this laws will do is encourage bargaining, however may also allow the Honest Work Fee to have higher energy to intervene to truly cease industrial disputation dragging out to offer an incentive to unions but in addition to employers to take a seat down cooperatively,” Albanese mentioned.
Albanese additionally mentioned the federal government would proceed to contemplate gasoline market intervention with costs set to proceed rising within the east coast power market.
“We’ve got mentioned very clearly that what we’ll do is, earlier than Christmas, have a place, which we’re working via in the meanwhile. We’ve got additional discussions and conferences this week,” he mentioned.