Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

I'll answer that in my own capacity as the minister for infrastructure who is responsible for the agreement that we have between every state and territory on the delivery of infrastructure projects. Be in no doubt: the behaviour that we've seen from the CFMEU is absolutely unacceptable, and this government has taken the strongest possible action to actually deal with it. For 10 years you talked about it, but you didn't actually do anything about it. This government has placed the union in administration, which means—and the reason that some of these issues are now coming to light is because of that—

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