Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. It was reported today that the government's hand-picked administrator of the CFMEU, Mark Irving, has continued to employ Mr Joel Shackleton at the CFMEU, despite Mr Shackleton being charged with making death threats against the owner of an Indigenous labour hire firm. Among other profanities, Mr Shackleton is caught on video saying:

I'll f---ing take your soul and I'll rip your f---ing head off.

Minister, if the government is genuine in its campaign to clean up the CFMEU, will the Albanese government, today, intervene and instruct the administrator to terminate the employment of Mr Shackleton?