Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Exactly on that point, there are members on that side that owe their jobs to the CFMEU: the member for Calwell, the member for Shortland and the member for Hotham, and that is before we get to the member for Gorton. They all owe their jobs to the CFMEU. But, interestingly, the CFMEU is now selecting Labor's frontbench. An article in The Age is headed 'Factional "Dalek" Kim Carr faces the axe in Labor frontbench reshuffle'. We know that Kim Carr was on his way out. Interestingly, in that article we read, after a little bit of shenanigans: 'CFMEU state secretary John Setka said the move against Senator Carr was being pushed by a "few egos in Sydney"'—no offence, Albo—

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