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

I do not know about you, but it continues to amaze me that those on the other side—even when they hear the answers to the questions and the filthy behaviour that has been engaged in—continue to run cover for these types of people. They refuse to condemn them. I honestly ask you, how do you sleep at night?

Look at CFMEU state secretary John Setka. John Setka threatens public servants at the ABCC, saying:

… just remember one thing, when this is all over, and they don't exist any more … we'll remember them because we know every—

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one of them. We will never forget them.

Then there was a flyer, which we heard about at Senate estimates, that was circulated on construction sites in Melbourne. This is what it said to the workers:

To all the dogs out there, remember when you pick up the phone to the ABCC rats, we will know about it, and who will protect you when the rats can't even protect themselves?

Do you know what they put on the back of those flyers? They put the personal details of inspectors, including home addresses, phone numbers, where they went on holidays and the names of their spouses.

But those on the other side have the audacity to come into this place, stand up and say they do condemn this type of behaviour. Look in the mirror; look at this type of behaviour. If it was undertaken in any other workplace in Australia, quite frankly, criminal charges would be brought against you in breach of safety legislation. But those on the other side, hypocrites as they are, can only feign outrage at the language that is used in the Senate.