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

Like with all matters that are pursued by any law enforcement authorities, the Commonwealth always cooperates fully with all of those matters, which you would expect us to do—and of course we would! Just because the opposition has referred matters to the New South Wales police and just because the opposition have referred so many matters, on so many members—and they have all ended up going absolutely nowhere at the end of the day—forgive me for not leaping to the conclusions that the Leader of the Opposition has on this day; breathlessly coming to the dispatch box and making the allegations that he is making against the member and minister.

I understand why the Leader of the Opposition wants to distract attention today. It's not just because there are 65 representatives of the CFMMEU before the courts across 28 separate matters brought by the ABCC—

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