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

What I can confirm is that Senator Cash defends the interests of trade union members in a way the Leader of the Opposition never did. She defends them. Let's look at this bastion of advocacy for the members of the AWU. This is what the Leader of the Opposition said at the royal commission:

It is perfectly consistent with the tradition of the trade union movement to have services provided by unions paid for by employers.

Regrettably, it is, and one of the services provided by unions to employees is trading away their penalty rates—that's what they get paid for, in example after example of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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