Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Moreton is interjecting. I reckon if the member for Moreton had a 92 per cent success rate when he was a solicitor, that would be pretty good figures!

As we speak, there are around 30 CFMEU representatives currently before the courts. If those members opposite want to go on the record and support the CFMEU when the Federal Court has found that they are the biggest recidivist organisation in breaking industrial laws in this country, then go for your lives! Thirty CFMEU representatives are currently before the courts, with the CFMEU accounting for around 1,663 contraventions since the reintroduction of the ABCC. These are unlawful activities on projects like schools, hospitals, roads and bridges. Ernst & Young have recently done a study to identify what the costs of abolishing the ABCC are. Do you know what those costs are? The estimated costs are around $47 billion—

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