Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

So the discretion is completely up to them. In May 2021, assistant secretary of the New South Wales branch of the CFMMEU Michael Greenfield only discontinued his application for a right of entry permit because of the submission of the Australian Building and Construction Commission. For the record, in the Botany Cranes case, Mr Greenfield was found to have said to the managing director, 'If I were you, I would effing sign it'—his threat—'What do you think will happen to you?' This was followed up the next day by, 'If you sign the EBA, we will leave your sites alone.' In a case like this, where there is clear coercion, as shown in a court of law, the Fair Work Ombudsman is not obliged to make a submission against the right of entry permit application; they merely have the discretion to, based on their workload?