House debates

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Questions without Notice

Workplace Relations

3:06 pm

Photo of Christopher PyneChristopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

if Melbourne work sites have bikies who are also members of the CFMEU, they should be discouraged from wearing their colours at construction sites. That was his response to thuggery and intimidation in the workforce. Plain-packaging thuggery was fine. That was fine, but the bikies associated with this criminal behaviour were not allowed to attend work sites with their colours on.

Last week the Maritime Union of Australia had some very bad times with one of their members attacking a journalist. The Leader of the Opposition's response was that he had not seen the story on the front page of The Australian newspaper. He had not seen this story—

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