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

The HSU was never affiliated with the Labor Party. So you have done a great job! The HSU is not doing too well, fella. It is not doing too well. You have just put Kimberley Kitching—

Opposition members interjecting—

Thank you for the interjection, though. You have just decided that the most worthy person in Victoria in the Labor Party that you could put into the Senate is Kimberley Kitching from the Health Services Union No. 1 branch—a branch described by the national secretary of the Health Services Union, Chris Brown, as stumbling from crisis to crisis. He said he would dissolve it if they did not get their act together. That is who you have just chosen to fill the Senate vacancy of the very well-regarded Senator Conroy, who has retired and been replaced with Kimberley Kitching—the same person that the Heydon royal commission referred to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions for impersonating other union leaders in doing their safety tests for them, putting workers at risk in the workplace—

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