Sam Dastyari (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Through you, Chair, I am not sure if that is an interjection I should be taking or leaving. Against my better judgement, I think I will let that interjection stand.

This is a bad piece of legislation. This is a piece of legislation that has been defeated time and time again because it does not achieve what it sets out to achieve. This is a bill which is nothing more than a relentless attack on the Australian trade union movement by an ideologically-driven government that is out of ideas, that is out of direction and that is only unified by hate. And when they are not hating each other, when they are not splitting amongst each other, they turn around and start attacking others. And I note that the soon-to-be former Leader of the Government in the Senate has walked in to start question time.

I will say this: this is a bad bill. This is not a bill that should be supported. This is not a bill that should be passed by this Senate, and I await the Senate defeating this bill one more time.