nurses teachers and police pay has skyrocketed over the past 14 years compared to tradespeople. Why is it that only nurses teachers and police pay matters? all the tradespeople I deal with in the private sector, they have not had a pay rise in 14 bloody years. Including myself. That’s the facts , that’s the truth. If the LNP lose this coming election it’ll be because the trades have walked away…. Not because they have embraced Labor. Far from it. Everyone knows that a Labor promise is a dirty lie.