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

So, Senator Sterle, again I stand here gobsmacked that members of the Labor Party come in here to defend the actions of the militant Maritime Union of Australia, bearing in mind that the context in which this all occurred was that there were three orders—two from the Fair Work Commission and one from the Federal Court—that had said to these five employees, 'Stop your unlawful industrial action,' and they refused to. Senator Sterle, no-one in this place and no-one in the wider community gets to pick and choose which orders of a commission or a court they comply with. The law is the law. And in this case the law found against the MUA and the five members on the ship, it told them to end their unlawful industrial action and they refused to.