'Save our weekend rates', protesters tell Turnbull in Brisbane

Malcolm Turnbull has been mobbed by protesters as he visited a Brisbane business.

Supporters of workers rights protest

Malcolm Turnbull (C) has been mobbed by protesters as he visited a Brisbane business. (AAP) Source: AAP

Union protesters have mobbed the prime minister as he visited a Brisbane business.

Malcolm Turnbull was surrounded by police as he entered Gilimbaa digital creative agency on Friday.

Protesters had arrived 20 minutes before him, led by a man wearing a paper-mache bobble head of Mr Turnbull, along with a Panama hat, Hawaiian shirt and a briefcase full of fake money.

A man dressed up brandishes a sign during a Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's visit to Brisbane (AAP)
A man dressed up brandishes a sign during a Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's visit to Brisbane (AAP) Source: AAP

Around 50 protesters chanted "save our weekend rates" as they awaited his arrival.

ACTU boss Ged Kearney addressed the media, insisting the Liberal-National party was trying to take away penalty rates for workers.

Mr Turnbull is visiting the business to announce a plan to encourage indigenous entrepreneurs.

Labor leader Bill Shorten won't interfere in wage negotiations between employers, their workers and trade unions.

His comments follow a deal the CFMEU struck with big construction firms for a 15 per cent wage rise over three years, which Deloitte predicts could add between 5 to 15 per cent to the cost of Victorian state-funded infrastructure projects.

"I am not about cutting peoples' wages, I am not interested in trying to interfere in commercial negotiations between employers and employees," Mr Shorten told reporters in Darwin on Friday.


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