Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

This government understands that the construction sector and its contribution to the economy, to jobs and to prosperity are far too important to let it continue to be plagued by a culture of lawlessness and practices that have no place in modern workplaces. We saw this culture in yesterday's court decision when we read that Ralph Edwards, the president of the CFMEU, was openly encouraging a mob outside the Grocon workplace to identify Grocon workers and 'get personal, up close and personal with them right'. This intimidation of Grocon workers by the president of the CFMEU is, quite frankly, truly appalling, especially as the Grocon workers, many of them women, are members of the CFMEU themselves.

This government is committed to re-establishing the ABCC to ensure there is a strong regulator enforcing effective laws and meaningful penalties so that the laws of this parliament will once again actually deter people within that industry from— (Time expired)