Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

He's asking to be kicked out, Mr Deputy Speaker. This month, the Australian Federal Court found that CFMEU officials had kicked down a safety rail designed to protect workers at a BKH Group site simply as a pretext to illegally coerce them into a pattern enterprise agreement.

How about freedom of movement and the right to work? In October last year, the CFMEU and its delegate Andrew Harisiou were fined $90,000 and $8,000 respectively for barring workers from entering their worksite to earn their living unless they agreed to sign up to the CFMEU and pay its membership fees.

How about freedom from intimidation or threats of violence? In June, CFMEU official John Setka threatened to expose ABCC inspectors and seek to make their children ashamed of who their parents were. And those opposite laugh.

Opposition members interjecting—

I'll keep going after the next speaker. (Time expired)

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