House debates

Thursday, 15 September 2016

Bills

Fair Work Amendment (Respect for Emergency Services Volunteers) Bill 2016; Second Reading

11:37 am

Photo of Dan TehanDan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Cyber Security) Share this | Hansard source

No, not that I am yelling, but that you think this is tedious and boring. It beggars belief that you would sit there—go to Casterton, go to Coleraine, go to Charlton and go and talk to those volunteers. Ask them about this. Ask them why your leader, Bill, would not go to Victoria and go out to country communities while this was going on during the election campaign. Why? Because he knew that he would get the truth delivered to him. He knew that he met with Peter Marshall, the head of the UFU, a couple of months ago. He had a secret meeting with Peter Marshall so that all this could slip through and he would get his way. Well, we on this side are not going to stand for it. And if I have to raise my voice to make it known that we will not stand for it, I will and I will do it unashamedly, because this is so important. If you do not realise that on your side of parliament, then damn you.

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