Catryna Bilyk (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, but not when he was in Tasmania. When he was in Tasmania, you let him resign and you let him get away with the theft of $48,000. If he had not recommitted a crime, if he were not a repeat offender, he would have got away with stealing $48,000 from the Liberal Party in Tasmania. You cannot cover that over. There is no way you can cover that over—absolutely no way.

When we hear so many stories about ordinary customers being mistreated by the big banks while Labor is calling for a royal commission, this government wants to give them a $7 billion tax cut. With 1.8 million members, the trade union movement is the largest social movement in Australia. Many of the rights and conditions that have been gained throughout history that Australians take for granted, as I said earlier, have been won not through the kindness of employers but through the advocacy of trade unions and their members over many, many decades. But those on the other side are very happy to let people lose their working rights and conditions. You are a disgrace. You are all a disgrace! You found unions all of a sudden. What a joke!