Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party) | Hansard source

Thank you, Member for Kingsford Smith. I like to think I'm a good man—but in balance. But it's not with the CFMEU doing what they do on workplace sites, particularly in Melbourne and throughout Victoria, at the behest and the coercion and the cooperation and the collaboration of the Australian Labor Party in that state.

Watson found there was no genuine bargaining. A CFMEU official told the contractor executive:

There is no bargaining—no, nothing will be changed in this agreement.

It's a shameful episode in what can happen when you let the criminal elements of a union take over, take charge, because it is criminal. They'll get away with it, as they often do, but it stops more hospitals being built. It stops more bitumen being put down on roads and saving people's lives. It does, particularly in Victoria, where they are in urgent and desperate need of a government that actually looks after the people who keep the lights on.

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