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

I will also say to Senator Edwards that, when you get rid of this type of behaviour—this bullying, intimidation and thuggery—on building and construction sites throughout Australia, you ultimately improve productivity and job prospects for all Australians.

Jimmy O'Connor, a CFMEU official, has been ordered to pay $12,000 for contempt of court after he threatened a subcontractor that the CFMEU would 'go to war' unless the subcontractor employed a particular person affiliated with the CFMEU. In October 2014, the court fined the CFMEU and five of its officials a total of $152,500 for acting in an improper manner while seeking to exercise right of entry at the Adelaide Oval. Again, in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the ACT, the pattern of behaviour is there.