Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Kevin007 has said, ‘Elect me and you will have absolute harmony between the states.’ And he has gone down at the first hurdle. Mr Beattie has ignored him. Mr Ludwig is coming out and challenging Mr Rudd, because Mr Ludwig can see a big fat increase in the membership of the AWU. Once again we are saying that the unions will be running Australia if the Rudd alternative government is elected. We are going to have wall-to-wall state Labor governments but, more than that, we are going to have the AWU, the Ludwigs, the McDonalds, and all the unions calling the shots. If there has ever been a clear example of that, we saw it in the Australian today, where Mr Ludwig has tried to pull Mr Rudd into line. We have a union boss dictating the terms to the alternative government of Australia. If that is not a warning to Australians then I do not know what is. You have a union boss who sees a big fat increase in the membership of the AWU telling Mr Rudd exactly what to do. I am appalled by it. I am appalled by the unions that are intervening in the opposition. The opposition is not in government and they cannot keep their hands—(Time expired)

Question agreed to.