Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) | Link to this | Hansard source

Labor's project to hijack the Australian economy for corrupt union bosses is becoming relentless. Legislation opposed by One Nation but rushed through by Labor and the Greens last month enables the Albanese government to discriminate against businesses which don't have EBAs backed by their union boss mates when awarding contracts and grants. The CFMEU now has an effective chokehold on supplying labour to building sites. It's no wonder that construction industry productivity is in freefall.

Don't get me wrong. Unions have their place. Workers need representation when it comes to pay and conditions, although most choose not to be union members. Only about 13 per cent of Australian workers are union members. Workers need to ask themselves whether unions truly represent their interests or just those of Labor and corrupt union bosses.

One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts has been instrumental in exposing the CFMEU's direct involvement in wage theft from coal workers in the Hunter Valley and Queensland since 2019. Labor don't want you to know this. At the federal level and in that economic basket case we call Victoria, Labor only pays lip service to evidence of massive corruption in the CFMEU and infiltration of that organisation by organised crime. The bell is tolling for the Allan Labor government in Victoria. The latest RedBridge/Accent survey published today shows the Premier's net favourability is at minus 42 and One Nation has overtaken both Labor and the coalition on primary votes for the first time. One of our first priorities in Victoria will be to put in place the measures which will expose and end the CFMEU corruption enabled by Labor and restore confidence in the building and infrastructure industry and deliver accountability for taxpayers' dollars. (Time expired)