There’s been more chicken than Colonel Sanders himself could handle in Canberra this week, as the debate about Sunday penalty rates continues.

‘Shrill Bill’ Shorten has suddenly discovered an appetite for protecting pay rates of workers, which is a marked departure from the stance he took as head of the AWU.

Back then, he enthusiastically supported a pay deal for workers at Cleanevent that permitted the award to be undercut by $10 an hour per worker, and is estimated to have cost around 5000 workers more than $400 million in lost wages.