Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Unfortunately, yes, I am. In February 2013 the WA secretary of the MUA, Chris Cain, addressed the MUA's militancy conference in Fremantle and boasted 'laws need to be broken, you’re going to get locked up'. In another example, yet again showing complete contempt for the law, senior Victorian CFMEU official Derek Christopher, while addressing a large crowd on a megaphone at a CFMEU blockade, with police officers only metres away, said as follows: 'There's 11,000 coppers in the country and there's 30,000 members of the CFMEU, and greater amongst the other unions when we call on their support. So we're up around the 50,000 mark. So bring it on. We're ready to rumble.' These are just some examples of union members in Australia who have complete, total and utter contempt for the law. None of us are above the law, including officials in the union. (Time expired)