Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

In response to the member's question let me make three points. The first point I make is that Dyson Heydon AC, QC is a former judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, a former judge of the High Court of Australia and a judge who has served our country with the greatest distinction and with integrity. Members opposite should be careful about impugning the integrity of such a man.

The second point I make is that the royal commission into union corruption is absolutely necessary, as the facts revealed at that royal commission have shown. Members opposite should be very careful about running a protection racket on a union protection racket. Members opposite should be very careful trying to protect from public exposure their union mates—

Ms Macklin interjecting—

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