Luke Howarth (Petrie, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak on the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Administration) Bill 2024. I would have liked to speak for 15 minutes, obviously, but the Labor government have guillotined debate on this. I remember, when we were in government, the now Leader of the House would go off his tree if ever a bill was guillotined. But on this issue they've got no government speakers and they don't want to let the opposition speak, which is wrong. We should be able to speak. There's no reason we can't sit late. But they're not letting us speak.

In relation to the amendment from the Independent member opposite, the member for Wentworth, she makes some good points in the sense that the shadow Attorney-General managed to get some good amendments in place that the Albanese Labor government were not going to put in. They weren't going to go hard on the CFMEU until the shadow Attorney-General got them in place. And the amendment that the member has spoken about talks about the donations to the Labor Party from the CFMEU. We know it's huge and that, in the lead-up to the 2022 election, almost $2 million was donated to Prime Minister Albanese and the Labor Party by the CFMEU—far more than when the former Leader of the Opposition, whose seat I've forgotten—

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