Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

How many of those today are members of the CFMEU? No show of hands, and I particularly note the member for Griffith has kept her hands very much below the table. Just as well; I could go to the register of interests and I could see when she was asked about the membership organisation where a conflict of interest with a member's public duties could foreseeably arise or be seen to arise. Guess what it lists?

Membership of the CFMEU—that is what it says.

As a member of the Leader of the Opposition's executive and in particular as the shadow assistant minister for universities, I wonder what the member for Griffith thinks about the state of affairs at the Queensland University of Technology, where the Fair Work Commission launched the Federal Circuit Court proceedings against the CFMEU and official Michael Myles, after he allegedly disrupted two major concrete pours on the $60 million project at the Queensland University of Technology? On 8 April 2016, the Federal Court ordered penalties totalling some $50,000 against the CFMEU and Mr Myles, and Judge Jarrett found Mr Myles's conduct to be:

… a deliberate and intentional disregard of workplace laws.

That is a fellow member of the CFMEU, and the shadow minister is supposed to care about the building and construction of universities. But I note it is telling that not one of them wanted to put up their hand and declare their association with the CFMEU when they are acting as a bloc to bringing it to heel. (Time expired)

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