Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

Just yesterday, in Senator Cameron's home state, in Sydney, one union bully went well out of his way to single out a female inspector and spit at her. In another example, CFMEU official Shaun Reardon was recently stripped of his role as a White Ribbon ambassador following evidence that he had made a late-night threatening phone call to a female staff member of the ABCC. Yet another CFMEU comrade called a female ABCC staff member late at night at home and threatened her with gang rape, saying that he and his seven mates were coming around to do it. And, in the face of all this ugliness, we have, of all people, the President of the ACTU writing to senators, championing the CFMEU, with no mention of the OH&S issues for these female workers who were sexually harassed. I ask: what about their rights at work? (Time expired)