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

I see that my friends on the other side are still standing up for John Setka, as usual. They like trashing public servants who work hard. They like trashing public servants who put themselves—in fact, their bodies—on the line against the CFMEU. They stand up for John Setka instead. Yesterday the Federal Court handed down record fines against the CFMEU of $2.4 million. The judge at the centre of that decision, Judge Geoffrey Flick, said:

It is difficult, if not impossible, to envisage any worse conduct than that pursued by the CFMEU

The jury is so in on the CFMEU. Yet still the Leader of the Opposition refuses to expel the CFMEU from the Labor Party and he continues to take their donations—donations from the CFMEU that, since he's been the leader, now total $8 million. So, the CFMEU has very, very deep pockets, to be able to bankroll the Labor Party, particularly in Victoria.

Mr Brian Mitchell interjecting—

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