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

Unfortunately, yes, I am. The litany of judgements against CFMEU officials continues. Last year the Federal Court found that CFMEU official Kane Pearson took action against a Northern Territory construction company, Reday, with the intent 'to coerce them to pay a fee to the union on behalf of the Reday employees'. The court found that Mr Pearson and other CFMEU officials of the union entered Reday's central apartment project site, in Mitchell Street, Darwin, 'not for the legitimate purpose or the legitimate exercise of their right of entry but to indicate the extent to which the union could disrupt the efficient progress of a building site'.

To pick up on one of the interjections of Senator Cameron, this is about the economy, Senator Cameron, because when you do not have a functioning building and construction sector in Australia all Australians pay more for the buildings that are being constructed.