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And to stand with the 411,000
public sector workers that have

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kept this state running kept us
safe during a pandemic. Do the

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essential work that we demand
of them day in and day out and

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to reject the government. The
Premier and the Treasurer's pay freeze

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Indeed pay cut
Mister Deputy President. We

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heard the contribution from the
government then that

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cutting the wages of the

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of the employees from the
single largest employee body in

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the country is somehow going to
be good for the economy, The

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New South Wales government. The
largest employer in the

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country, Bare none bigger than the
Commonwealth bigger than any

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other private 
Corporation bigger than any

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other state and territory, and
it would be economically

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disastrous to cut the spending
power of the 411000 public

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sector workers that depend upon
the New South Wales government

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and the economy, especially in
regional and rural New South,

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but across the state 
that depends upon the paychecks

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of public sector workers,
keeping us going during the Pandemic.

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We're clear that the seniors executives
should accept the pay freeze but you

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know the one area on senior
executive pay raises where

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there's disagreement. It's this
government that wants to give a

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pay cut to public sector
workers, the hardworking nurses

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and cleaners and firefighters.
It's this government that has

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just handed the Police
Commissioner and $87000 pay

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raise the hypocrisy of them
standing up here and now saying

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cleaners should have a pay cut.
It's just unspeakable. It's not

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just that there's about a dozen
senior executives that just in

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the last six months this
government has given a

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collective pay rise almost half
a million dollars to where do

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we see the legislation
reversing those pay rises to

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the seniors executives that are in the
political pocket of the

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government. Where do we see the
the call to reverse the pay

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raises for the Police
Commissioner nowhere  they

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want the cleaners to pay they
want the public sector workers

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to pay. and meanwhile, they
wanna hand out the money to

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corporate Australia where they
see fit and they wanna keep the

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senior executives on the big fat
paychecks they're handing them

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that's about buying loyalty that's what 
that is.