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

( ) ( ): On this my 48th birthday I was thinking I was not going to get a birthday present. But I was wrong—the opposition has provided me with a lovely birthday present, which is the most spectacular own-goal I have seen in this 44th Parliament. What a spectacular own-goal from the opposition—the very subject that they want hidden from the public view, namely their tawdry relationship with the Australian union movement, they have decided to place it front and centre of Australian political debate here in question time and all day in parliament. For months the Labor Party have attempted to hide their relationship with the CFMEU, the MUA, the AWU and every other union in the trade union royal commission, even to the extent of pretending that they had no involvement with them.

Mr Perrett interjecting

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