James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Williams for his comments there. What is disappointing, and what the Labor Party's approach has been to this, is actually about a Sally McManus protection racket that is going on here. They do not want the Senate to have a look into the comments of the head of the ACTU, in terms of her outrageous comments about the rule of law; or that the chief union official in this country has for once told the truth and exposed the ugly Labor carcass that is the modern Labor movement in how they believe they can achieve change. And that is by not obeying the rule of law.

What we have seen here today, ladies and gentlemen, is a Sally McManus protection racket. I condemn the Labor Party for its disappointing approach.