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Speaker 1: So the People's Select Committee of the former MPs has

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Speaker 1: reported back today and completely unsurprisingly has slammed the government

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Speaker 1: for scrapping the pay equity law last year, which is

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Speaker 1: fair enough in some ways. I mean, it was a

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Speaker 1: shoddy process. The MPs say it offends the rule of law.

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Speaker 1: They're probably right. It was done in a hurry to

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Speaker 1: save last year's budget. It was rushed through under urgency,

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Speaker 1: changed the rules retrospectively. It's all really cynical stuff from

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Speaker 1: a government, and too much of that stuff undermines confidence

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Speaker 1: in the way that the system works. But even though

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Speaker 1: they make some fair points and mount some fair criticism

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Speaker 1: of the way that Nikola Willis and Brook van Valden

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Speaker 1: ran this thing out, I can't get past the next

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Speaker 1: question I have, which is, so what what do these

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Speaker 1: former MPs think or happen As a result of this report?

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Speaker 1: The pay equity scheme will not be brought back in

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Speaker 1: the way that it was. It's miles too expensive. The

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Speaker 1: cost to the government was estimated at thirteen billion dollars

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Speaker 1: over four years. The cost of the entire economy would

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Speaker 1: be much much higher. The former MPs want parties to

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Speaker 1: make it a bottom line to reintroduce it after the selection.

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Speaker 1: No party can credibly say that they will, because where

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Speaker 1: will they find thirteen billion dollars other than making this

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Speaker 1: country's already worrying structural deficit even more worrying and adding

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Speaker 1: to our already far too large debt. Chippy will make

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Speaker 1: noises about bringing it back, but press him a little

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Speaker 1: bit harder, ask him where he's going to find the money,

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Speaker 1: and you do not get any sufficient responses on that. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: I think that is where this argument ends. Where do

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Speaker 1: you find the money? Yep, it was bad lawmaking, Yep,

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Speaker 1: there were people who were hurt by it.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: It's fair to criticize it, But where do you get

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Speaker 1: the money?

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