Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

Why did the shadow Attorney-General, the member for Isaacs, criticise our extension of time for the royal commission into union corruption and thuggery? I think the answer lies in the fact that the CFMEU is one of the biggest donors the Labor Party has ever had in its history. Since 2000, it has given $10 million to the Labor Party in donations. The CFMEU has such power over the ALP that they will not act. Hawke, Keating and Rudd would have acted against the union. This Leader of the Opposition is too weak to take the action that he knows he should take.

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