House debates

Thursday, 17 August 2017

Matters of Public Importance

Turnbull Government

4:22 pm

Photo of Andrew WallaceAndrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Run away, run away—that's right! They know that they have absolutely not a shred of respectability when it comes to industrial relations. It's very sad, because what it's doing is costing our country billions of dollars a year because of the corruption that goes on between the Labor Party and the union movement. Not all unions are corrupt—I accept that—and not all union members are corrupt. What we are against on this side of the House is corrupt unions. What have they given on the other side? What do they stand for on the other side? They stand for secret deals between unions and employers. They stand for corrupt benefits. They voted against our legislation on corrupting benefits. They give away penalty rates. They stand here and they, with the greatest amount of sanctimony, talk to us about—

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