Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, President. I'm happy to address through you. Senator Cash, President, consistently comes in here and talks about CFMEU corruption, but she is the person standing in the way of this bill passing today. If she tells the coalition to vote against this legislation, then the game she is playing will be clear to everybody in this country and in this parliament. It will be clear that she is only interested in positioning politically on this, not actually interested in cleaning up this union, which is what this government is trying to do. So I say to Senator Cash: listen to the Master Builders, when they say—listen to this; this is the Master Builders of Australia—

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Should I wait for you to finish shouting so you can listen to the quote?

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