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

Funny that Senator Back should ask! I noted with interest a report in The Daily Telegraph yesterday which stated:

… Labor leader Bill Shorten has demanded that union leaders outlaw the entry of anyone wearing bikie colours or badges into building and construction site across the country.

In other words, he was promoting a mufti day for the bikies! He does not want to change the people going into the sites, just what they wear. He does not want to change their behaviour; he just wants to change what they wear so they cannot be identified with outlawed bikie gangs. This is Bill Shorten's, the great Labor leader's, answer to corruption and thuggery and intimidation in workplaces and on construction sites: 'Change your clothes. Wear a different jacket and everything will be all right.' What we need is a change of culture. We need a change of personality. We need a change of— (Time expired)