Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services and Digital Transformation) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am very pleased to answer the question, because I've got a lot more to say about this. This goes to the character of the Leader of the Opposition. This goes to the character of the man who wants to be Prime Minister of this country. This goes to the character of the man who already is measuring up the curtains of the office, thinking about how he is going to redecorate The Lodge and how he operates if he were to get into that position of responsibility. His last position of responsibility, the job he had prior to entering the parliament, was running the Australian Workers Union, the AWU, the union which since October 2017 has been running interference and trying to stop the Australian Federal Police from getting the evidence they require to pursue their investigation about wrongdoing within the union. And it goes directly to his behaviour when he was running that union. Can you just take union members' money and give it to whomever you like, including yourself? That's what he did with union members' money.

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