Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

'You bet we are', he says. If they are so proud, why did they not share those deals with the members? Why were the payments kept secret? If it was such a great deal, why not tell everybody? Why did it have to be kept secret? One deal after another, one payment after another, and one thing in common: it took a royal commission and two years to find out about them, just like the donation to his election campaign, again, from Unibilt, a company that his union had been engaged in negotiations with—no connection there, I am sure; just a coincidence! The Leader of the Opposition has been selling workers down the river for years, trading away penalty rates for years, taking backhanders for years, and we are going to stop it.

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