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

The administrator is in charge, and the only person who is giving a platform for some of the comments is Senator Cash. I would make this point: Senator Cash in the primary was dealing a lot about Mr Setka. I would remind Senator Cash that it was under her and the government she was a part of that Mr Setka's power grew—that the corruption and the thuggery and the violence grew under the coalition, whilst the ABCC was in place and also while Senator Cash was the relevant minister. So we have taken stronger action than you were ever able or willing to take, and you know why we have done it? It was not as you wished to do, which was to seek to break the trade union movement, but because we want a trade union movement that is stronger and grounded in the values of the Labor movement, and corruption and violence are not grounded in the values of the trade union movement. (Time expired)