❓ The Minister acknowledges the $27.36 minimum wage increase by the Australian Fair Pay Commission, stating it's welcome but insufficient to cover inflation and rising costs for WA families. He contrasts the state's industrial system favorably against the federal WorkChoices system.
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WAGE DECISION BY AUSTRALIAN FAIR PAY COMMISSION
I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of seniors from Wanneroo and Mandurah, who joined the minister and the member for Wanneroo for lunch today to celebrate Seniors Week. Will the minister comment on the Australian Fair Pay Commission’s minimum wage decision handed down today and what it will mean for employees in Western Australia? Mr J.J.M. BOWLER
I acknowledge the presence in the public gallery of seniors from Wanneroo and Mandurah, who joined the minister and the member for Wanneroo for lunch today to celebrate Seniors Week. Will the minister comment on the Australian Fair Pay Commission’s minimum wage decision handed down today and what it will mean for employees in Western Australia? Mr J.J.M. BOWLER
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I thank the member for Mindarie for the question and for the warm welcome his constituents showed my colleagues and me last week when we visited the northern part of his electorate. It would be very easy to say that the $27.36 pay increase handed down today is too little too late. However, I must first say that it is welcome for Western Australian families. It has been a long time coming - 18 months. It does not cover the inflation that the Treasurer pointed out. What was it, Treasurer, $36 a week? Mr E.S. Ripper : A loss on interest rates, if they have a mortgage, of 2.3 per cent. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Will the minister comment on the Australian Fair Pay Commission’s minimum wage decision handed down today and what it will mean for employees in Western Australia? Mr J.J.M. BOWLER replied: I thank the member for Mindarie for the question and for the warm welcome his constituents showed my colleagues and me last week when we visited the northern part of his electorate. It would be very easy to say that the $27.36 pay increase handed down today is too little too late. However, I must first say that it is welcome for Western Australian families. It has been a long time coming - 18 months. It does not cover the inflation that the Treasurer pointed out. What was it, Treasurer, $36 a week? Mr E.S. Ripper : A loss on interest rates, if they have a mortgage, of 2.3 per cent. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr J.J.M. BOWLER replied: I thank the member for Mindarie for the question and for the warm welcome his constituents showed my colleagues and me last week when we visited the northern part of his electorate. It would be very easy to say that the $27.36 pay increase handed down today is too little too late. However, I must first say that it is welcome for Western Australian families. It has been a long time coming - 18 months. It does not cover the inflation that the Treasurer pointed out. What was it, Treasurer, $36 a week? Mr E.S. Ripper : A loss on interest rates, if they have a mortgage, of 2.3 per cent. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
I thank the member for Mindarie for the question and for the warm welcome his constituents showed my colleagues and me last week when we visited the northern part of his electorate. It would be very easy to say that the $27.36 pay increase handed down today is too little too late. However, I must first say that it is welcome for Western Australian families. It has been a long time coming - 18 months. It does not cover the inflation that the Treasurer pointed out. What was it, Treasurer, $36 a week? Mr E.S. Ripper : A loss on interest rates, if they have a mortgage, of 2.3 per cent. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
It would be very easy to say that the $27.36 pay increase handed down today is too little too late. However, I must first say that it is welcome for Western Australian families. It has been a long time coming - 18 months. It does not cover the inflation that the Treasurer pointed out. What was it, Treasurer, $36 a week? Mr E.S. Ripper : A loss on interest rates, if they have a mortgage, of 2.3 per cent. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr E.S. Ripper : A loss on interest rates, if they have a mortgage, of 2.3 per cent. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Will the minister comment on the Australian Fair Pay Commission’s minimum wage decision handed down today and what it will mean for employees in Western Australia? Mr J.J.M. BOWLER replied: I thank the member for Mindarie for the question and for the warm welcome his constituents showed my colleagues and me last week when we visited the northern part of his electorate. It would be very easy to say that the $27.36 pay increase handed down today is too little too late. However, I must first say that it is welcome for Western Australian families. It has been a long time coming - 18 months. It does not cover the inflation that the Treasurer pointed out. What was it, Treasurer, $36 a week? Mr E.S. Ripper : A loss on interest rates, if they have a mortgage, of 2.3 per cent. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr J.J.M. BOWLER replied: I thank the member for Mindarie for the question and for the warm welcome his constituents showed my colleagues and me last week when we visited the northern part of his electorate. It would be very easy to say that the $27.36 pay increase handed down today is too little too late. However, I must first say that it is welcome for Western Australian families. It has been a long time coming - 18 months. It does not cover the inflation that the Treasurer pointed out. What was it, Treasurer, $36 a week? Mr E.S. Ripper : A loss on interest rates, if they have a mortgage, of 2.3 per cent. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
I thank the member for Mindarie for the question and for the warm welcome his constituents showed my colleagues and me last week when we visited the northern part of his electorate. It would be very easy to say that the $27.36 pay increase handed down today is too little too late. However, I must first say that it is welcome for Western Australian families. It has been a long time coming - 18 months. It does not cover the inflation that the Treasurer pointed out. What was it, Treasurer, $36 a week? Mr E.S. Ripper : A loss on interest rates, if they have a mortgage, of 2.3 per cent. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
It would be very easy to say that the $27.36 pay increase handed down today is too little too late. However, I must first say that it is welcome for Western Australian families. It has been a long time coming - 18 months. It does not cover the inflation that the Treasurer pointed out. What was it, Treasurer, $36 a week? Mr E.S. Ripper : A loss on interest rates, if they have a mortgage, of 2.3 per cent. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr E.S. Ripper : A loss on interest rates, if they have a mortgage, of 2.3 per cent. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We have just worked out while the Treasurer was speaking that it puts workers $8.64 behind on repayments before they buy their first banana. Therefore, they are about two bananas behind already. Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Several members interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Hang on! It is a welcome increase. Western Australian families will welcome it when it comes in on 1 December. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take his seat. I call the member for Murray to order. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : Does the member for Murray not want the increase for his electorate? Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : The average Western Australian family has had to wait 18 months for this increase. Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr M.J. Cowper interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
The SPEAKER : Order, member for Murray! Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
Mr J.J.M. BOWLER : We said that people under the state industrial system should not have to wait that long. All the Labor states agreed that the increase should come in at the end of the first year. We agreed and the increase was introduced in Western Australia and other Labor states back in July. I have no doubt that the state increases played a major role in ensuring that the federal system introduced this $27.36 increase. There is no doubt that the state system encouraged the federal government to make this increase, and that it would have been much lower if the state system had not underwritten the increase. There is no doubt that conditions for the average Western Australian family will be diminished under the WorkChoices system. Whereas the Carpenter government believes in a fairer, safer and more productive workplace, the federal system is one of confrontation, and I am afraid that many Western Australian families will not be having a happy Christmas. When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
When I look up at the public gallery and see young people there, I draw a comparison between the fair system that the senior citizens in the gallery went through in an Australia that they knew and loved and the industrial relations system that these young people will go through. That makes me worry about the future of those young boys and girls up there.
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