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

I have to say in the ACT, it appears has now four levels of government. You have the legislature, the executive, the judiciary and then of course there is the unions. Labor want to put the unions at the very top of the structure. There is no doubt that, based on this document, the ACT government runs a closed shop. In the ACT, it is determined by the unions and at a cost to the taxpayer. It gets worse, because the Chief Minister this morning—someone clearly with no shame—admitted this: similar agreements had been in place for more than 10 years. This is a long-standing thing. When we look around the chamber, I have to say, unfortunately, Senator Gallagher, it does come to you. What deals did you enter into when you were the Chief Minister of the ACT, in black and white, stitching up your agencies to the behest of the union?