Christopher Back (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Industry, Senator Ronaldson. I refer the minister to a recent statement by the Hon. Martin Ferguson in Perth:

… the Maritime Union WA Branch is a rogue union … I think they are not only potentially going to kill jobs for their own members, children and grandchildren in the future the way they've conducted themselves.

I think it's about time the rest of the union movement fronted up to the fact that they are now killing jobs in manufacturing.

Can the minister inform the Senate how the actions of the MUA are threatening future investment and jobs in Western Australia's offshore oil and gas industry and what the government's response is to this issue?