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

There was $9.7 million donated directly to the ALP, including $1 million from the CFMEU donated directly to the ALP. There was $16½ million spent on political campaigns, including $300,000 from the CFMEU. So the CFMEU spent $1.3 million in the lead-up to the 2016 election in one year campaigning against the Turnbull government. So the union movement spent $26½ million of other people's money into campaigning against the Turnbull government.

The Leader of the Opposition has certainly followed the adage that he who pays the piper calls the tune. The No. 1 priority of the AMWU or the CFMEU or the MUA was to stop the Australian Building and Construction Commission and that is precisely what Labor's policy was. Labor dismantled the ABCC. They opposed it root and branch. That is because this Leader of the Opposition is in hock to the union movement.

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