Aaron Violi (Casey, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'll withdraw, and I'll repeat it again nicely. 'We have an obligation to pursue antiunion, antiworker effers like him, and we will until the end of the earth. This is going to cost the AFL a lot of effing money. I hope it's worth it. Projects without our full cooperation are going to be an effing misery for them. They will regret the day they ever employed him.' I guess we know why Mr Setka never ran for parliament—he clearly wouldn't be parliamentary—but that behaviour is apparently acceptable.

He's targeting an innocent man to make an example of him and to show any other Victorian, any other Australian, that if you try and stand up for workers, if you try and enforce the rule of law, the CFMEU will chase you and will get after you. This is intimidation. This is a deliberate attack on Stephen McBurney, but it's also sending a message to other Australians that, if you try and do a legitimate job, protect workers and protect the rule of law, you will be targeted and chased for the rest of your career. It is a disgrace that that person is trying to do that to an innocent Australian. (Time expired.)

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