Greg Combet (Charlton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency) Share this | Hansard source

I thank my colleague the member for Newcastle for the question, because working with industry to clean up asbestos has been a feature of the work of the government, the trade union movement and the Labor Party for many years. In particular, on this side of the chamber we stand up and fight for the rights of victims of asbestos diseases. One of the things that I am most proud of from my time in the trade union movement was the achievement of a multibillion-dollar compensation fund for victims of James Hardie. In that dispute—

Mr Pyne interjecting—

I have noted what you have said.

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