Craig Laundy (Reid, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Here is the kicker: in the last federal election campaign United Voice donated $1.3 million to your election campaign. That is how policy development works in big business and unionised workforces. That is why we focus on the section of the economy which drives growth and employment in our local communities.

Opposition members interjecting—

I get why you are yelling. I would not like being accused of it either. But it is not me that is accusing you; it is the Auditor-General of this country. This is a disgrace, but it is not an isolated instance.

That is how those opposite operate their policy settings. The members for Gorton and Grayndler stood at the dispatch box and cried crocodile tears on behalf of workers and small businesses in this country; I call you for what you are: you are ex-union people representing unionised workforces, and this proves it.

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