Matt O'Sullivan (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

What an excellent motion this is from my friend Senator Ruston. I hope that the Senate supports it, and I stand today in this place firmly on the record with my support for it. I'm actually impressed at the Australian Labor Party here: their lack of shame on this topic is genuinely unmatched. I thought that we would see the ABCC, the Australian Building and Construction Commission, stripped slowly of its power, but what they're doing is they are approaching this with a full head of steam. How wrong was I to think that they might do this slowly!

The members and senators of the Albanese government were not even sworn in yet when we saw Tony Burke, the minister, and Prime Minister—