Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

The CFMEU has donated $11 million to the Labor Party—$11 million. There are many people who sit behind this Leader of the Opposition who are affiliated very closely with the CFMEU, and there are many people who would call themselves a friend of this Leader of the Opposition who are very intricately involved in the senior levels of the CFMEU. I will let the Australian public make their own judgement about this Leader of the Opposition. But we have seen, when it comes to 457 visas, and when it comes to this leader saying before the election that he would be on a unity ticket with this government in relation to border protection matters: you cannot take him at his word. There is nothing that this Leader of the Opposition says that he truly believes in, and he will say anything at all to the Australian people just to take this office, and he is not worthy, on any test, to become Prime Minister of this country.

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