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

Where they don't, action should be taken. And where employers don't behave appropriately, action should be taken.

What we have seen with the ABCC, just like with the ROC, the Registered Organisations Commission, is its politicisation. Remember the whiteboard over there and the minister hiding behind it? Remember the tip-offs to the media for raids on the AWU—how did that go? How much taxpayer money was used in pursuing something that was then abandoned? My view is very clear: that all workers should be treated equally, that unions should behave properly, that employer organisations should behave properly and that there is a common interest between unions and employers, which is why they will be brought together in the Jobs and Skills Summit.

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