Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

As Senator Back knows, this government is doing what it said it would do, and that is to restore the ABCC. We are going to do what we can to return the rule of law to the building industry and ensure that wrongdoers are held to account wherever they are or whoever they are. What we want to know is: where is Mr Bill Shorten in relation to this matter? Why are Mr Bill Shorten, the Australian Labor Party, Senator Pratt and Senator Ludlam standing behind an organisation, a union, that is just involving and engaging in outright thuggery? The big decision for those opposite is: are you prepared to sit back and let the people of Western Australia continue to suffer from your inaction in relation to this matter? Are you going to say to the people of Western Australia over the next two weeks, 'We are going to condone the behaviour of the CFMEU members; we are going to condone the sort of behaviour that led to those fines'? That behaviour has the potential to destroy— (Time expired)