I, at this point in my speech, want to reflect on the legacy of one particular union leader and my friend and mentor, Helen Kelly, who sadly passed away in 2016. Her commitment to working people and fairness did not die. It is here in this bill in front of us. In her excellent book Helen Kelly: Her Life, the journalist and author Rebecca Macfie reflected on Helen's work towards what we now know as fair pay agreements. She mentioned—and I'll summarise what Rebecca has in her book about this time in Helen's life: "She put a prestigious amount of work into policy that would drive minimum wage and conditions across whole industries. This was informed by her work [Helen's work] at the International Labour Organization, where she had collected a bulging file about wage and bargaining systems from around the world. She was particularly interested in regimes—common in Europe—where agreements were negotiated with large employers and extended across entire sectors, establishing uniform standards of pay and conditions. She was also aware of international research that showed that there was a clear link between income inequality declining and declining rates of collective bargaining." 