Slade Brockman (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Here we are again, with this Labor government refusing to back a very sensible inquiry into the impacts of a union that they have now admitted has been completely out of control. There was absolutely no reason to put through the legislation that we put through this place this week unless the government had conceded that the CFMEU was completely out of control. Yet, apparently, it's all contained now. Yet, if you go back a few months—Senator Scarr, you'll remember this very clearly—what was the then minister's and the current minister's position on the CFMEU? It was that there was nothing to see there.