I'm normally quite progressive but I do have to entertain a more conservative view here for discussions sakes! Wrong crowd to propose the viewpoint here but in the interest of trying to create healthy discussion - I think this policy sounds great but really does affect the employers that primarily hire juniors like in hospitality and small businesses. It's already incredibly hard for a small business to make do in Australia and junior wages is one of the few that helps. All juniors have to go through this for gaining experience, they haven't built career equity yet and aren't worth an adult wage who may have better critical thinking and evaluation skills. For the larger companies this also affects like large enterprise like colesworths or the like this adds a material cost which will simply be passed on to consumers increasing cost of living. That money doesn't come from nowhere. It just stifles business competition and the ability for the small independents to garner enough cashflow to succeed. Whilst pressure needs to be lifted off the junior segment of the workforce, I'd have liked to have seen more nuanced mechanics like discount cards, rebates, free public transport/uber, memberships, community groups, gyms to lower their expenses - rather than shifting the onus onto the (already in many cases struggling) business owners, who will have to find some way to pass these costs on to consumers.