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Speaker 1: It's the sort of theoretical nonsense you would expect from

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Speaker 1: a bunch of wonks like the Labor Party. But blow

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Speaker 1: me down if the NATS haven't clambered on board as well.

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Speaker 1: Camilla Bellich has a member's bill. Members bill don't normally

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Speaker 1: get to where's hers has given. If they did, the

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Speaker 1: party would have gone it's not a bad idea and

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Speaker 1: run with it anyway. But her Employee Remuneration Disclosure Amendments

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Speaker 1: Bill has passed its second reading, and given the NATS

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Speaker 1: has now turned up, it seems it'll become law now.

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Speaker 1: The underlying I'm quoting here, the underlying reason for the

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Speaker 1: bill is to ensure that people who are discriminated against

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Speaker 1: have the ability relative to other employees doing the same work,

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Speaker 1: and allows them to discuss that, in other words, discuss

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Speaker 1: your pay. You serious? So this is how this is

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Speaker 1: going to go, isn't it? Jenny told me. Jenny told

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Speaker 1: me she earned seventy six thousand dollars a year, and

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Speaker 1: we all know she's useless. So how come I'm on

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Speaker 1: sixty nine thousand? Ah. Obviously the room for interpretation here

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Speaker 1: or misinterpretation is immense. What you think of yourself and

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Speaker 1: what the person handing out the money thinks might well

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Speaker 1: be very different things. Jenny might have been there longer,

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Speaker 1: might have been hired away from another employer, hence they

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Speaker 1: needed a sweetened to get her across the line. Might

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Speaker 1: have been employed by a different person in the same company.

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Speaker 1: None of this leads anywhere productive. As far as I

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Speaker 1: can work out, this is basically sticky beat law that

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Speaker 1: will lead to resentment, anger, if not fury about who

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Speaker 1: does what, gets what what they're really worth. It'll be

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Speaker 1: off as gossip. It'll lead to people ganging up on

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Speaker 1: people to rumor to when you end her backstabbing in

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Speaker 1: a general sense of our needs not to mention the

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Speaker 1: fact that if you have an arrangement with your boss,

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Speaker 1: that's between you and your boss. There's a privacy issue. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: unionize jobs of mass pay are different. But a lot

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Speaker 1: of the world's on a contract, and that contract is

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Speaker 1: legally binding, and it's a legally binding understanding between you

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Speaker 1: and the other party. I'm not sure Camilla or her party,

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Speaker 1: or now the NATS quite get the fallout that's coming. Look,

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Speaker 1: if I told you my income, it'd be a headline

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Speaker 1: and stuff in about half an hour's time in a

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Speaker 1: national debate would ensue, and ten thousand keyboard warriors would

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Speaker 1: have a field day under the new law, There's nothing

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