Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister, sometimes described as box office poison, be visiting Victoria tomorrow, or has Denis Napthine told him to stay away because he is no John Howard?

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

Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The question is clearly out of order. It offends standing order 100 and should be ruled out of order and moved straight to the government member.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

If the member for Sydney wishes to rephrase her question and make it in order then she may do so.

Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister be campaigning in Victoria tomorrow?

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have been campaigning in Victoria three times—three times since the election was called. Once was to talk about our infrastructure improvements that have been done jointly with the Victorian Premier, and those infrastructure improvements are not just East West Link, vital though that is, but also the widening of the Tullamarine Freeway, an absolutely vital infrastructure improvement that will only happen under a coalition government here in Canberra and in Victoria as well. So I was there for that.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Moreton.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I was there to stand shoulder to shoulder with Premier Denis Napthine to announce a police task force—

Honourable members interjecting —

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There will be silence!

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to investigate abuses by the CFMEU, abuses which people like the Leader of the Opposition effectively support—

Opposition members interjecting—

Let us hear the Leader of the Opposition—

Mr Conroy interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Charlton will leave under 94(a).

The member for Charlton then left the chamber.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

stand up and repudiate the CFMEU. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to stand up and repudiate the CFMEU. The Leader of the Opposition wants John Setkatobe the most powerful man in Victoria. That is what he does. By contrast, I was in Victoria standing shoulder to shoulder with Premier Denis Napthine to announce a joint Commonwealth-Victoria police task force to investigate—

Ms Plibersek interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Sydney has asked a question.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

and prosecute union criminality, which has been connived at for years by members opposite.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Member for Watson, I am not calling for your point of order.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

No, it is about asking for a comment to be withdrawn. He has impugned motives on the members opposite—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I am sorry, there is no individually, no. The member for Lingiari?

Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for External Territories) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I ask the Prime Minister to withdraw the imputation that I connived with criminals.

A government member interjecting—

He did.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There is no point of order. The member for Lingiari will take his seat or else leave. The choice is his.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

The member for Moreton will leave under 94(a).

The member for Moreton then left the chamber.