Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

If a single union are happy to have committed 106 separate contraventions of industrial law between 1999 and 2015, if they are happy to have racked up $13 million in fines for illegal activity and more millions in civil lawsuits, if they are happy for individual officials to receive as many as 15 separate fines without censure and if they are happy to ignore decisions of the High Court of Australia, then I am very surprised they are concerned with a simple regulation on flags.

Let's have a look at how the unions in this country protect freedom. How about the freedom to enjoy a safe workplace?

Opposition members interjecting—

This is so typical, isn't it, of those opposite—if anybody has a different view to you lot, howl them down. That's so typical, just like your union mates. This month, the Australian Federal Court found that CFMEU officials had themselves kicked down a safety rail designed to protect workers at a BKH Group—

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