Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

After the recent election in my home state, when you say that you are actually not held to ransom by your pre-selectors and that you are not here only standing up for them but not the members they represent, I find it a little hard to believe. I wish it were otherwise, but when I look at the first order of business in my home state of the new state government, it is— (Quorum formed) They are so ashamed, and so they should be, of the newly elected CFMEU government in my home state of Victoria that they call a quorum and abuse this place before I can let the chamber know what the first order of business was for the CFMEU state government in Victoria. It was to repeal legislation that we put in place to ensure that those illegal protests, not legal protests but illegal protests, where people are actually threatened and businesses are prevented from being able to conduct themselves and employ people and grow the economy, can be asked to move on by police officers. That is the very first thing—of all the challenges facing my home state, that is the No. 1 order of business for the CFMEU Premier, Daniel Andrews, in my home state of Victoria.