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

The Centre for Policy Development is another one of these public policy think tanks which claim to be independent and nonpartisan. In truth, like the patriotic-sounding Australia Institute, it is just another left-wing policy factory. The anodyne-sounding Centre for Policy Development is in fact funded by the CPSU, the CFMEU, Slater & Gordon, the Finance Sector Union and—not to leave the Greens out—the Graeme Wood Foundation. Indeed Nadine Flood, the national secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union, is one of the centre's board members. The particular research in question was funded by the Community and Public Sector Union, the Becher Foundation and Slater & Gordon Lawyers. (Time expired)