Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Unlike the Liberals we are about consultation in relation to our workplace relations, including the ABCC, including how the powers will operate, including how the system will work to ensure that there is fairness in the system, and to ensure that those matters such as the recent reports of verbal abuse and physical intimidation are dealt with appropriately and properly within the ABCC, because they are at arm’s length from this government. The system ensures, of course, that if there are matters that should be referred for police investigation they will be. And of course it would be inappropriate for me to make any further comment about those specific matters, but, in general to the broader question what I can say—