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

I am advised that the entities which the minister consulted in the drafting of the bill were that hotbed of radicalism Master Builders, ACCI, COSBOA, AIG, the Business Council of Australia and the ACTU.

This is a bill which the industry knows is necessary. What we saw just now was the unholy alliance between those who are only interested in protecting Mr Setka and the corrupt elements inside the CFMEU and those who are interested in protecting those elements just so they can continue to play politics. Meanwhile those decent trade union officials who have bravely stood up on this issue and others—