Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question and thank him, very much, for the efforts on behalf of his community that he makes to make it a safer place. That is certainly what this government is about. We have been able to cancel the visas of 106 non-citizens—cancelled or refused 106 non-citizen visas over the course of the last 12 months or so of people associated with outlaw motorcycle gangs.

What we know in this country is that members of outlaw motorcycle gangs are the biggest distributors of amphetamines, they are involved in extortion and they are involved in standover tactics, particularly of people in small business, and as a government we have said that we will not stand for it. So we have introduced provisions in the Migration Act which allow us to cancel visas of people who are engaged in criminal activity, including these outlaw motorcycle gang members.

It really is quite astonishing that the Labor Party is opposed to such measures. And we ask ourselves: why? What people know about this Leader of the Opposition is that he is owned and managed by the union bosses of this country. He is owned and managed by them—and he has been his entire working life. That is the true fact of the matter. And we know that the CFMEU, the most militant union in the country, employs outlaw motorcycle gang members to stand over builders and workers on building and construction sites around the country.

And you ask: why would this Leader of the Opposition turn a blind eye to the activities of the CFMEU and of the bikies providing that standover and muscle on those building sites around the country? There are 1.3 million reasons why he did it last year: because the CFMEU donated $1.3 million to the Labor Party last year alone. They are still running a protection racket for him.

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