Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

by introducing the Registered Organisations Commission and to bring back the Australian Building and Construction Commission, both of which I unfortunately have to inform the House are being stopped in the Senate by the opposition—by this Leader of the Opposition.

But the government is even more deeply concerned about the most recent revelations in the trade union royal commission. The House will remember the case of Clean Event, which we discussed last time we met. In that case, Clean Event provided $75,000 to the Australian Workers Union in exchange for selling workers down the river to the tune of $6 million in labour costs that they would otherwise have received and the scrapping of their penalty rates.

But even more sinister is the case of Douglas Site Services that we heard about today in the newspapers. In that case, the AWU sought the same arrangement that they had had with Clean Event. And Douglas Site Services refused to sign that EBA—that arrangement with the AWU—and so the AWU refused to sign the EBA into law and Douglas Site Services went out of business.

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