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

They can stop making excuses like the current Leader of the Opposition and the Premier of Victoria, who have played down Mr Setka's comments, pretending they are not an issue, and basically indicating that we do not need to worry because—colleagues, I note—'union boys will be union boys'. That is an absolute disgrace. Mr Shorten, quite frankly, needs to be a little more like Anthony Albanese and show a bit of spine and disassociate from the CFMEU. They need to stop taking the money, the millions of dollars that the CFMEU provides to them. More importantly, however, they cannot continue to stand up and pretend to be appalled by these comments and then quite literally turn their backs on everything else that is happening. They want to pretend this is not an issue, but given the track record of the millions of dollars donated by the CFMEU to the Labor Party— (Time expired)