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

The Fair Work Act has been breached again and again by the CFMEU—breached again and again, millions of dollars of fines. And there was the member for Gorton and the Leader of the Opposition encouraging those workers, those members of the CFMEU, in their vile threats against workers that were going in there and doing their jobs. But what they didn't know was that the Leader of the Opposition—and the member for Gorton, no doubt, because he backs his Leader of the Opposition to the hilt, I'm sure; the hilt or the butter knife—was getting ready to cancel the Adani licence. And the legal grounds were all set out by Geoff Cousins, and one of them related to new information about the offsets for the endangered black-throated finch. How would the workers at Oaky have responded if the Leader of the Opposition had said, 'black-throated finches of the world unite'? I don't think they would have been very impressed. He sold their jobs down the river to get green votes and, of course, a nice holiday on the Barrier Reef.

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