Fiona Scott (Lindsay, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I have two words: 'false' and 'misleading'. That is what the unions are all about. At a time when we see former union bigwigs sitting in jail or answering questions at the royal commission into union governance, and union membership at record lows, one would have thought the ACTU and their mates and cronies might have just got the hint to clean up their act. But, sadly, they have not. They are more intent on lying to the people of my electorate and deceiving people with their silly campaigns and their stupid little games.

They have misused their members' money. They are lying to their members, falsely and misleadingly telling people that I was attending a debate when they had acknowledged my letter saying that I was unavailable on the night they had written to me about. They then further falsely advertised on network radio right across the Sydney metropolitan basin that I and the honourable member for Macquarie were going to turn up with the President of the ACTU to debate the Chinese free trade agreement when they knew we were unavailable. Further, they falsely advertised on Facebook, paying for that again. Rather than representing the rights of their workers, they are paying for false advertising and falsely putting robocalls right through the electorate. Shame on the unions.

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