Craig Laundy (Reid, Liberal Party, Minister for Small and Family Business, the Workplace and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Banks, shareholders or members, no matter who they are—for the member for Wakefield's attention—they should be accountable to their members. But there is not one iota—it would be easy to throw this out by saying, 'Here's the paperwork; here's where the Leader of the Opposition, when in charge of the AWU, had authorisation to give GetUp! 100 grand.' They can't produce it, so they want to play games—smokescreens by their union bosses. They are in here prosecuting slander and class warfare, which is exactly all they are: one-trick ponies.

In terms of accountability, those opposite have not one policy for one job. We are responsible on this side for the policy settings that have enabled over one million jobs the economy has created and have enabled businesses to take on bank debt, back themselves and employ people over the past 4½ years. I spoke today in question time of the need for the Australian Building and Construction Commission, the ABCC. Why? Because we have green shoots galore in construction.

Ms Butler interjecting—

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