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

They clearly are pleased to bankroll the Labor Party in Victoria. They're also quite happy to pay these fines. They've been fined again and again. As Justice Geoffrey Flick said:

The CFMEU … has repeatedly sought to place itself above the law.

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The CFMEU's conduct exposes a cavalier disregard for the prior penalties imposed by this court …

It's the responsibility of the leaders in Australia to lead by example and to say to the CFMEU, 'You're not welcome in the Labor Party until you get your act together.' Bob Hawke was tough enough, and John Cain was tough enough to stand up to the BLF. The Leader of the Opposition allows the CFMEU into every single forum of the Labor Party in Victoria: into their preselections, into their policy-setting processes, into the governance of the Labor Party. The CFMEU and the Labor Party are in lock step. One of the CFMEU leaders, whose union was fined yesterday, at the Barangaroo site in Sydney described the investigators from the Fair Work Commission as being worse than paedophiles—worse than paedophiles! A union leader said a public servant doing his job was worse than a paedophile. These are the kinds of people the Leader of the Opposition stands up for. He now has the 'cash for stacks' scandal in Victoria to deal with—the cesspit that is the Labor Party in Victoria, and this Leader of the Opposition sits on top of that cesspit. (Time expired)

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