Keith Wolahan (Menzies, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'll take the interjection. There were no convictions, but there was a 90 per cent success rate. That's a much higher rate than most public prosecutors.

So again we say: you can't be serious. We saw that at all levels of government, from a political party that is intertwined with an organisation whose whole reason for existing is to extract a premium and lift prices. That's their whole purpose. So the speech by the member for Parramatta was a speech saying: 'Well, bad luck, CFMEU. You failed. You achieved nothing in your entire period of existence—nothing.' Well, when you come to Victoria and see that the cost of the North East Link in my electorate has gone from $10 billion to $26 billion, you can see that they have succeeded, at the expense of taxpayers. When you see that the Suburban Rail Loop, which again comes into my electorate, is projected over 30 years to cost $216 billion, you can see that they are doing very well, not for the people of Victoria or the people of Australia but for themselves. This is about power, not principle. You can't be serious.

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