Maria Kovacic (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Minister, the Building Industry 2000 slush fund was first exposed at the 2014 royal commission, more than a decade ago, as a CFMEU controlled slush fund worth over $1 million used to bankroll union and political campaigns. Today it still holds over $920,000. Under this government's watch, former CFMEU bosses John Setka and Ralph Edwards secretly transferred the fund's registration to Edwards's private home address, and the administrator appointed to clean up the union didn't even know it had happened. Given the administrator has known about this fund for over 10 years and it has been on the public record since the royal commission, how can the Prime Minister possibly have confidence in him when the same slush fund is being used to undermine his administration?