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

Unfortunately, yes, I can, and, of course, it is those opposite. Over the last 20 years the Australian Labor Party has received approximately $14 million from the CFMEU. In addition to that, we have recently witnessed a video showing how the CFMEU are buying up the Labor Party and demanding outcomes for themselves. To quote a senior CFMEU official who appeared in the video, who said:

… what we're actually going to do is take ownership and ­responsibility of the ALP … We're getting influence in the ALP and that's how we're going to get in there. We're not going to wait for the politicians to come and do it for us …

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We're not going to just ask them to do it, we're going to go in there and demand they do it …

The CFMEU has a hold over the Labor Party and that is to the detriment of the building and construction industry in Australia.