Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

It is interesting to note that, with all the funding agreements that were sent out the day before the election, all those centres had entered into agreements with, you guessed it, United Voice. At the 2013 federal election, United Voice donated $1.5 million to the ALP. It is not surprising that unions donate to the ALP, but this was twice the donation that they had provided at the 2010 election. But there is one other piece of information. Not only do we know about that funding—and significant support was provided to the member for Adelaide—but we also know that there were two ministers particularly responsible for the carriage of this program. One was the now member for Adelaide and the other one sits in the Leader of the Opposition's chair today.

The Australian people are not fools, and I think they can smell the same thing we can smell coming from that side of the chamber. They can smell the stench that is rising up—the same stench we saw with New South Wales Labor that saw the end of that government in New South Wales. They can smell it and they are onto you. What are we doing about it? We are not doing grubby deals with unions. What we are doing is spending $3½ billion to support families—not unions.

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