Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The case of the Cleanevent industrial agreement is a very relevant one. What that involved was one of Australia's largest and oldest unions, of which the Leader of the Opposition was the national secretary, entering into an industrial agreement with an employer which, in the course of that agreement, traded away conditions, penalty rates and so forth in the agreement, but which involved, unbeknownst to some of the most low-paid workers in Australia, a secret deal between the employer and the union to pay money to the union behind the backs of those employees. That was accepted, apparently, as standard practice. That was regarded as okay; perfectly reasonable. Honourable members opposite cannot imagine— (Time expired)

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