Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

For years you had the chance to do something about the corruption and criminality that we now know is in the CFMEU. It was under your watch, under your ABCC, and did you ever do anything concrete about it? No, you did not. You never once sought to introduce a bill of the kind that we are seeking to introduce and pass right here today. You never did it, and now, on a Thursday afternoon, you're still squeamish about it, because you just want to run around—

Opposition senators interjecting—