Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I've made it very clear that, where someone commits a crime, they should be charged with it. I've never heard of this bloke. I've got no connection with him. The idea, somehow, that we're going to come in here—it says a lot about why they're sitting opposite. They could have come in here today and asked questions about inflation, the cost of living, the health pandemic or foot-and-mouth disease. They could have asked questions about a whole range of issues. And what do we get? It's back to the same old bucket that saw them have a royal commission into trade unions—into, at the time, current and former Labor leaders, effectively—and spend millions of dollars of taxpayers' money on what was a political pursuit.

The Federal Court said this about the ABCC for its prosecutions: it labelled them 'unnecessarily inflammatory and conducted as a blood sport'. Politics should be better than that, but I'm not surprised that the opposition isn't.

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