Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

Australians want, and quite rightly demand, greater accountability of their registered organisations, especially trade unions, hence the coalition's registered organisations commissions bill. Labor and the Greens are impeding this with an attempt to refer the legislation not to the Senate's legislation committee but the Senate's references committee—a complete abuse of their numbers in this place. And the reason they are doing it is because they are hopelessly compromised.