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

Isn't it telling that in this debate from those opposite there has hardly been a mention of the word 'union'? For those listening along at home, you know why just as well as I do that the link between the union movement and the Labor Party is well-known, well-ventilated and it is what the Labor Party never want to say when it comes to their defence of the superannuation system—that the link between the union movement and the superannuation system is corrosive. It has at the very least the whiff of corruption about it—and I will use that term—and Senator Kovacic has very clearly enunciated why.

Let me just paint you a picture of a reverse scenario. Let's just say there was the chairman of a company who just happened to be the president of the Liberal Party of Australia and that company was doing big deals with a Liberal government. Senator Kovacic, do you think those opposite might be slightly concerned by that sort of an arrangement?