Tim Wilson
Goldstein · Liberal Party · Australia
“Now, we see even more immoral leadership as the Prime Minister and his ministers refuse to audit whether federal money has found its way into the hands of organised crime through the CFMEU Labor cartel.”
“The silence that we heard from our prime minister and our national leaders every step of the way led to horrific incidents like, on 10 November, the protests at the front of Central Shule in Caulfield South in the Goldstein electorate. It led eventually to the most horrific terrorist incident on our most famous national beach.”
“The idea that you would put the social solidarity of the most marginalised section of our community on a ballot paper knowing it would fail is an abrogation of leadership and responsibility and something I do not think this prime minister will ever be able to shake.”
“I've recently been spending a lot of time thinking about what moral government is and what type of government seeks to divide citizens, feed corruption and break trust within the community. The short and sharp of it is that it's an immoral government.”
“But to engage in citizenship stacking, where they deliberately went around and targeted electorates and got people to become Australian citizens on the eve of a national poll, is absolutely disgraceful.”
“There is hope. We can have a moral government again that's focused on uniting Australians and building trust and taking Australia forward together. But the only way we can do that is by seeing a change of government and the end of the Albanese government.”
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“It's not just a problem for households, though that is very serious; it has a dramatic impact on small businesses, leading to the current small-business crisis. We've had record small-business insolvencies. Forty-one thousand small businesses have gone insolvent since the election of the Albanese government. Last year we had record small-business insolvencies, and we are currently on track to have a higher number of small-business insolvencies this year than we had last year. At every point, all we've heard from this government is a denial that it has something to do with it, even though the Reserve Bank governor has made it explicitly clear that public expenditure directly contributes to private demand.”
“They are pouring debt petrol onto the inflation fire, and Australians are having to live with higher inflation and higher interest rates. Those opposite are engaging in a form of denialism in this chamber and this parliament, and it's truly sickening. It shows they don't understand what they're doing. It's not just a matter of fiscal recklessness, though it is that; it's an active engagement in denial as they actively fuel inflation in this country. You just need to look at the simple stats. Since the Albanese government was elected, insurance premiums have gone up 39 per cent; energy costs, up 38 per cent; rent, up 22 per cent; health insurance, up 18 per cent; education costs, up 17 per cent; and food costs, up 16 per cent.”
“Do not underestimate how lived this reality is. More and more parents are going to supermarkets and having to put items back on the shelf. They're having to tell the person at the supermarket checkout that they can't afford the total bill, and they're having to take items out of their basket. I understand from some of the research that has been done that, increasingly, Australians are choosing to go through self-service checkouts because it's a way to maintain their dignity by not having to tell other people that they can't afford the full cost of the items in their basket. This government's answer is hubris and arrogance, saying, 'Inflation is under control. You're all living in la-la land. We've got nothing to do with it,' despite the fact that it is pouring money into the economy and fuelling the inflation problem.”
“Back in reality, it's important that we stand up and speak out about the real challenges Australians are living with cost-of-living pressure. I just heard a speech from the member for Maribyrnong which truly was the very definition of audacity and denial. We have a government that simply does not seem to understand that it is pouring debt petrol onto the inflation fire. This is not based on some sort of academic assessment; it is what Australians are living right now. They're waking up, dropping their kids off to school and finding their way to work. They're going to the supermarket at the end of the day, and every day, when they check out their items, they are experiencing fewer goods going into that red basket—fewer goods that they're able to buy with their dollar. That is how Australians are living right now.”
“But, when you deliberately seek to do as she has done, which is to point out the density levels of the Australian community— we know full well that the minister has completely lost control of her portfolio and has absolutely no idea how she is doing her role, and she is fundamentally undermining the dream of homeownership for Australians.”
“If the state government has their plans—you'll see that, around most of the Goldstein electorate, it's largely just an attempted distraction away from their complete and utter failure to build the housing that Australians need to own or rent. It's backed up by propagation by the Minister for Housing, who continues to deceive the Australian community about the density of the population in parts of the electorate. The Goldstein electorate had density levels 30 years ago that were bigger than those of a lot of local councils that have seen significant population growth. The shrill response from the Minister for Housing says that perhaps we've touched on a difficult and nervous point.”
“We've had technology that has superseded much of fibre to the home, which doesn't mean that it doesn't have value—no-one is arguing that—but that fibre has a place, as well as satellites, as well as mobile telephony. If you actually understand technology, progress isn't just through fixed infrastructure; it also comes as a consequence of changes and innovations in areas like software compression and data compression. It's in this basis that this legislation sits. Technology plays an important role there, but it also plays an important role to address much more civilian challenges that we face today. You just need to go to the Goldstein electorate. In parts of Hampton East and Moorabbin, we're seeing more and more density of population and, more importantly, density in terms of building.”
“Telecommunications to help address these problems is an important part of a country being able to do its job and, more importantly, is about empowering citizens to be able to live out their best lives. We know full well that technology continues to evolve and that, done right, technology can be a central part in telecommunications infrastructure and can be a part of connecting people. But we shouldn't become rigid about this. That was why the former Labor government's plan around the NBN, where they were just going to deliver fibre to the home everywhere, wasn't just economically illiterate; it was also technologically illiterate.”
“I rise to speak on this bill because making sure Australians have access to the proper telecommunications infrastructure to communicate is a critical part of living in a modern society. If you want to ask anybody about that, you just need to ask the Iranian people right now. They have lived with the consequences of a government that has shut down pathways for people to be able to communicate and speak out. Fortunately, technology has helped bypass that. The people of Iran have spoken up against the violence, harassment and murder of their citizens by their government, the ongoing and brutal treatment by the Islamic regime against the Iranian people, and the subjugation of women, the murdering of homosexuals and the exporting of terrorism around the world—in particular the incitement to kill Jews—including in Australia.”
“Why would we now then turn around and bring Islamist ISIS sympathisers to our country without proper checks and inspections? This is the problem with what the government is doing right now. They claim their hands are tied. The Prime Minister says he can't do anything about it. Now is the time for leadership. Now is the time for people to stand up and defend Australia's national interest against Islamist ISIS sympathisers, who pose a serious risk to the Australian way of life and its security. It's simply unacceptable to see a situation where our government do nothing in the face of such a serious threat, and all they can do is dither with that responsibility. We have a plan and have made it very clear that, if you engage in bringing Islamist ISIS sympathisers to this country, you go to jail, and we are happy to stand by that.”
“Australians are looking at the events on the other side of the world right now, and they're of course deeply concerned about escalation and the threats it could pose to global peace and security. They also look at it and say, 'Why would we want to bring those problems here?' We know in Iran we have an Islamist regime that has done despicable things from treating their own citizens appallingly, subjugating women, murdering homosexuals and of course engaging in the export of terrorism. We know that the Albanese government has a shocking record on national security. It did things like bringing people from Gaza to Australia without doing proper security vetting and assessments, which is one of the most dangerous and reckless acts I have ever seen in public life.”
“My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to his minister's refusal to answer questions yesterday and today about Geoffrey Watson's report into the CFMEU-Labor cartel of corruption. Given the Prime Minister has refused to write to the National Anti-Corruption Commission, can the Prime Minister explain what steps he has taken to satisfy himself that not a single hard-earned taxpayers' dollar from the Commonwealth has been misused?”
“Making history requires leadership, and I can see a path where we can deliver that and build a better nation. History is there to be made, but critical to that is expelling the Labor CFMEU cartel of corruption, the taint it leaves on the Australian government and the Australian parliament, and, of course, the cost to the Australian people.”
“After I lost in 2022, people said I was done and that, to win again, circumstances were impossible, but we won because we fought for the community and their future. The Liberal Party's situation now is no different. The Australian people passed judgement on the energy and the focus of our economic strategy at the last election. You reveal what you stand for by what you fight for, but, more importantly, you reveal who you're for by who you fight for. We need someone with a proven track record of turning an impossible situation into an improbable victory, because we know who we are fighting for. We know we're fighting for the Australian people—for families, for small businesses and for communities. We want an Australia that we love that's built on respect, where hard work pays off and Australians are in control of their lives.”
“Worse than that, in the meantime, in Victoria and nationally, we have anticorruption commissions who seem to not want to see this corruption, hear about this corruption, speak of this corruption or, frankly, do anything about this corruption, because it is hiding in plain sight and it connects directly back to the Australian government and the Allan Labor government in Victoria. There is another way. We have a choice as a nation about the type of country we want to be. We can choose an alternative path led by a united coalition government that wants to stamp out the CFMEU-Labor cartel of corruption and stop the kickbacks, and I can tell you some of us are willing to fight for it.”
“We know it took the Wood inquiry in Queensland to have this report made public, because the minister wouldn't release it. We wrote to her. We asked for copies. We FOI'd it. We wrote to the Fair Work Commission; we asked for copies and FOI'd them. But everybody seemed to want to be part of the cover-up. This is not governance in the best interests of Australia. What we have is a systemic problem of corruption that's connected all the way from the CFMEU-Labor cartel of corruption back, ultimately, to the Australian government.”
“But when you actually get an independent report from an independently commissioned entity to look into a systemic issue of organised crime and corruption, maybe you shouldn't whitewash it. Maybe, if you were part of the CFMEU-Labor cartel of corruption, you'd probably want to know about it, and you'd probably want to make sure that it was stopped. But yesterday, in the lead-up to question time, I simply asked to table the report so that it could never be whitewashed again, and the Leader of the House objected to me doing so. I can't understand why on earth you would want to stop this report being published let alone make sure—as unfortunately we found happened—independent corruption investigators are asked to delete sections of the report.”
“We know exclusively where this money goes—not just into organised crime and not just into criminal gangs but actually into terrorism to do things like finance the Iranian government's state sponsored terrorism and antisemitism to blow up Australian synagogues. The cartel kickback circle of life that sits at the heart of the CFMEU-Labor project is nothing short of disgraceful and finances crime. It is connected to organised crime and bikie gangs and is complicit in financing domestic terrorism. One of the Labor members on the other side of this chamber, when I mentioned it before, nodded along. I don't know about you, Deputy Speaker, but I accept that from time to time we have differences of opinion in this chamber.”
“How wide was the corruption spread? I'll give you an answer: pretty wide. It was systemic across the entire industry. In fact, I think I used the expression yesterday 'industrial scale'. Then we have a whole section just on ghost shifts. That's people getting paid and not doing anything. Then we have organised crime, crime figures and criminals favoured by the CFMEU. Another subject chapter could be called 'organised crime methods associated with the CFMEU'. Then there's a whole section—and you can't but laugh because there's literally nothing else you could say—called 'a crossover with the tobacco wars'. You have organised crime financing a tax on small businesses engaging in the practice of illegal tobacco.”
“That's, obviously, people who clip the ticket along the way in EBAs being sold off through the CFMEU-Labor cartel of corruption. Then we got one which was excluding enemies from EBAs. That's basically people who stood in the way of the corruption. Then there's another subchapter on misuse and abuse of social procurement schemes. In every single thing they touched, they found a way to steal money from taxpayers. Then there's misuse and abuse of Aboriginal business EBAs, so don't think there's any virtue sitting behind their trying to advance the best for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The CFMEU-Labor cartel of corruption looks at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as a pathway to indulge their practice of corruption further. Then you have labour hire. Is money the root of the problem? Well, that's pretty obvious.”
“That just talks about one slush fund; we know that the CFMEU separately uses its own redundancy fund to facilitate cash flows to corrupt other institutions as well. Then there's a whole chapter just on ad hoc corruption. You've got threats of extortion and systemic corruption. Then we have a chapter exclusively on outlaw motorcycle gangs. Then, of course, there's one on enterprise bargaining agreements. The subchapter to that is on bribery. The subchapter to that is on the black market—the buying and selling of EBAs, where, essentially, rights on worksites were used to trade and get ill gotten gains which found their way through the CFMEU-Labor cartel of corruption into Labor Party coffers. Then we had awarding EBAs to friends. I think that's considered the discount chapter. There were third-party EBA brokers.”
“The fifth one is 'Systemic corruption'. It goes into 'The introduction of the outlaw motorcycle gangs' and 'Manipulating the enterprise bargaining system'—you know, that industrial relations system that Labor loves and sets up to advance the liquidity in the cartel kickback scheme of the CFMEU-Labor cartel of corruption. There's 'Manipulating the rise of labour hire', meaning they actively undermined people being able to be contracted onto work unless it suited them and bribes were paid. There's 'The appointment of unwanted and unnecessary delegates', meaning costs for public projects went up to feed the union and its corruption. There's 'The appointment of friends and family to lucrative jobs'. Let's just call that 'nepotism and corruption'. There's 'The Building Industry 2000 slush fund'.”
“The report identified a number of key factors that drove the corruption within the CFMEU connected to the Labor Party: the open and deliberate defiance of the law; how the big build in Victoria, and big money in Victoria in particular, became the liquidity for the corruption that financed the CFMEU-Labor cartel kickbacks that went all the way into the Labor Party's coffers; how they actively sought to undermine the practices of other unions who were trying to do the right thing for their advantage; and, of course, the individuals involved. You just need to go through the subheadings and the headlines in this report. The first one is 'Introduction'. Well, that's very administratively justified. The second one is 'Power and corruption'. The third one is 'Violence'. The fourth one is 'Threats and extortion'.”
“Some of the members sitting on the other side of the chamber right now are part of that division that enjoyed the benefits, and they're nodding along as I say it. I would not be proud of saying that to the members opposite. I would be embarrassed and ashamed and repudiating not just the conduct of your state secretary but also the Prime Minister for continuing to tolerate the CFMEU-Labor cartel of corruption. It is the most disgraceful thing I think I have ever seen in this parliament's history, yet the members opposite do not even bat an eyelid. They seem enthusiastic and almost nod along. Let's go through the report that was eventually provided by the CFMEU administrator to the Watson inquiry into criminal activity, violence and corruption in the CFMEU in Queensland.”
“It's extraordinary, and not a single member on the Labor benches seems the least bit bothered by it, but we know why. It's because, when the money goes from organised crime and bikie gangs to the benefits of the CFMEU, it finds its way also into Labor Party coffers. This isn't some sort of contest or debate. Once it was revealed that bikie gangs and organised crime were actively engaged with the CFMEU to extract cartel kickbacks, the Prime Minister had the audacity to say to the Australian people that the Labor Party would no longer receive cartel kickbacks and donations from the CFMEU. Last week, there were revealed AEC disclosures which went through what political parties received what donations in what timeframe, and there was a donation in the tens of thousands of dollars from the CFMEU to the Australian Labor Party.”
“I'm completely happy to say that I believe that should be cut out of the budget, because I think it's a moral crime, a political crime, a breach of trust and a form of corruption. And every Labor member, unfortunately, through the sophisticated system of CFMEU-Labor corruption, stands to gain. I'm shocked that they want to keep asking this question, but, as we all know, it was detailed yesterday in a report that was handed down by the Prime Minister's hand picked CFMEU administrator. The title kind of gives it away. The title is Rotting from the t op . On the CFMEU in Victoria, what has been revealed—and we all know this—is that Victorian premier Jacinta Allan, in particular, has knowingly allowed and tolerated public money going into public projects to then go on and finance organised crime.”
“We absolutely believe that that money going towards organised crime and bikie gangs—it's laundered into marketing expenses and, eventually, donations to the Labor Party—is not just a matter of criminal activity or laundering of money. It's an issue of moral importance for this country because Australians are paying the cost; it's financed mostly through debt. This is the morality of this Labor government. They literally borrow from your children's future, stoke up inflation on Australian households today and then, of course, force you to pay higher interest rates so they can finance organised crime, they can finance bikie gangs and they can finance money that goes through a sophisticated CFMEU-Labor cartel all the way through to corruption.”
“I've just heard a diatribe from one of the members about the magnificence of the Albanese government. The case that has been put forward is that everything that they touch turns to sunshine and gold, and everything that the coalition wants to do is a problem. In fact, a question was consistently asked over and over and over again: what do people who want to see inflation come down—that means lower interest rates—wish to remove from the budget? I don't know why Labor members keep asking this question, because we have answered it consistently. We absolutely believe that $15 billion of Australian taxpayers' money should not flow from Treasury coffers into the CFMEU-Labor cartel of corruption.”
“It is targeted in a way with the safeguards to ensure, firstly, that is not abused but, more importantly, that it has to meet certain thresholds and seek certain levels of approval and power, with political accountability. The provision of this bill is very important and tragically necessary. I wish it were not and we didn't have to support these types of powers. One of the things I also support is the ongoing review of these powers and sunset clauses so that there's an acknowledgement that they've not become a permanent state of affairs. But we know what happens when they don't exist. It makes Australians weaker and less safe, and that's the basis on which I'm prepared to support the legislation.”
“I know those on the front line of the security agencies do everything they can. I am somebody who, of course, believes very much in the importance of people's freedom to be able to live out the best of their lives and that we should temper security measures because of the risks that they can be abused. That's why laws must have proper safeguards, and the compulsory questioning power is no different from that. The compulsory questioning power that ASIO holds has a direct and specific purpose necessary to the proportionality of their functions to make sure that they can find out the nature of what is happening in our community.”
“We've seen this in recent months in the context, obviously, of the tragedy of the Bondi terrorist attacks and, as the minister mentioned before, on Australia Day, where I think we saw one of the most terrifying—thankfully unfulfilled, but nonetheless still terrifying—attempts. That was the alleged attack in Perth, where an unexploded ordnance was thrown at a number of Indigenous protesters protesting against our national day. We can disagree on the issue or the views, but there is no place in our nation for violence against people exercising those basic rights and freedoms peacefully. I think it sent chills down the spines of many Australians, including mine, that we could have seen, for want of a better phrase, back-to-back fulfilled attacks of this nature. So it speaks to the challenge that we all face right now.”
“In rising to speak on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2025, I think we need to acknowledge, tragically, this is the most challenging environment that we are operating in for the security of this nation in a long time. During the past few years, we have seen a massive spike in social division, which is tearing at the social fabric of our nation. We are seeing the rise of extremism, which is a direct consequence of people increasingly feeling like they don't have control over their own lives or their own future. We can debate the sociopolitical consequences that sit behind that, but there is a simple responsibility for people in this parliament to pass the laws necessary and have the agencies properly resourced to keep Australians safe.”
“There is a time where good people of decency, I would hope, are prepared to stand up and call out the behaviour of this Labor government and the correlation of their behaviour and what they have engaged with. Sitting behind it is a fundamental compromise situation, where the Labor Party is actively participating in a deeply distrustful and deeply dishonest range of conduct for which every Australian is paying.”
“They are trying to undermine that spirit of independence that has made this country great. More importantly, the trade union movement—particularly the CFMEU, the corrupt CFMEU—is one of the biggest beneficiaries of this cartel kickback circle of life. When the CFMEU gets control of Australians' money, we now know from public reports that have been tabled in the Wood inquiry, it's used to sanction and perpetuate violence, harassment of women and the demonisation of people who are prepared to stand up. Absolutely we oppose this corruption. What's scandalous is that this Labor government runs interference when we do simple things like try and table a report into CFMEU corruption in this parliament, as the Leader of the House did before question time.”
“You just need to look at how the Assistant Treasurer right now is making the case for why self-managed superannuation funds who aren't exposed or don't create the consequences of the compensation scheme of last resort—they are deliberately, maliciously targeting self-managed superannuation funds, just like they did with the retiree tax on refundable franking credits and just like they wanted to do on their proposed unrealised capital gains tax. Every avenue they have to attack self-managed superannuation funds, they will absolutely take, because they want Australians to take their money out of SMSFs and put them in the industry funds that they can then control, because when they do that, they don't just control your retirement; they control your working life.”
“When this government extols the virtues of this bill, what they are extolling is—I can assure you it is not a virtue—the argument for their cartel kickback circle of life, where private funds for the retirement security for millions of Australians find their way laundered into the campaign coffers of the Australian Labor Party. Any pathway that frees people up to take control of their funds through self-managed superannuation funds, they seek to shut down.”
“We know how to design the rules and regulations so that it benefits our mates over you.' More importantly, they're increasingly rigging the structure of the Australian economy to benefit themselves. It is the very model of corruption that we should be seeking to expose, and the unions and industry funds are actively ensuring that it is perpetuated. Of course, every member of the Labor Party in some way is a direct beneficiary of the cartel kickback circle of life. If they sit on those Treasury benches, they sit on the Treasury benches because the financing of the campaign increasingly comes from Australians' retirement funds, which are shaved off and laundered all the way through the system under the banner of 'marketing expenses' to the point where they end up in the campaign coffers of the Australian Labor Party.”
“This is not just some sort of economic idea; it is fundamentally central to the type of nation we are. Because, when people own their own home, they are in a position to be more financially independent, they're more likely to be able to form a family and support them and they're more likely to be in a position to have the foundations and pillars for retirement security. At every stage of life, if you buy your home earlier and cheaper, you will be in a stronger and better position—not just to save on rent but to then go on and build the foundations of the success of a life and to be confident in doing things like becoming self-employed or setting up a small business. But Labor has turned around, torn that social contract up and said: 'We know how to run your life better.”
“It means that, increasingly, they want superannuation funds to become the new fundie-feudal lords—to buy and build the houses to rent to you for life. The sick idea, and it is sick, that they would deny young Australians a pathway to buy their home earlier and cheaper with their own savings but they're quite happy for those funds where those savings are held to go and build and buy housing to rent back to those young Australians who can't get into the property market is a complete perversion and a deliberate act of economic social engineering to try and turn Australian society on its head. The debate about housing has always been central to the type of country that we want to be. Australia has always been a land of great promise where young Australians can go on and, if they work hard, save and sacrifice, buy their first home.”
“If you had have said to anybody before 1992, 'Do you think it is logical to buy your home first before you focus on your retirement?' everybody would say, 'If you don't think that, you need your head read.' Well, what this government has done, and what successive Labor governments have done, is prioritise the size of somebody's 67th birthday cake over whether they can buy a home earlier, younger and cheaper, and they are paying the price. It affects women—who desperately want to get ahead and be independent and, in particular, those who are post divorce—and young Australians the worst. Frankly, it corrodes the very basis of the Australian aspiration and the Australian dream for homeownership. But that's fine for modern Labor because it means that they get to control your life.”
“Instead, the Labor vision has become this sick joke where young Australians can't afford to buy their first home and they're increasingly trending towards having a mortgage at the point of retirement in which they're able, over many years, to garnish off people's superannuation funds as much money to feed the cartel kickback circle of life that they are beneficiaries of. It is a perversion of the best interest of Australians and it's all done under the annex of claiming virtue. But they are directly assaulting the pathway for young Australians to own their own home.”
“The third pillar is pensions, which are publicly available to those who need it. Ninety-three per cent of people's principal today is left in their superannuation when they die. People have more super than they need to retire with dignity and they're passing on with nearly their total principal intact. That says to me we have our priorities wrong. Young Australians cannot afford to get into the property market and increasingly have huge volumes of savings available at their disposal to get into the market earlier and cheaper, but the Labor Party never wants Australians to access that money, because, if they start putting their own interest from their working life and retirement into homeownership first, they will become far more independent through their working life and in retirement.”
“More importantly, they will then have to justify, on democratic grounds, why they should be able to legislate their agenda. Labor doesn't represent organised workers anymore; it hasn't represented them for a long time. It represents the people who work the public sector and how much they can extract from the taxpayer. The other thing they represent is organised capital and they try and push as much money into that system—no matter how many times the facts are put out there, they won't accept that they're taking too much of Australians' money. Think about the absurdity of the situation we now face. The retirement income system has three pillars. The first pillar is homeownership. The second pillar is retirement savings through a set retirement savings scheme, which is superannuation.”
“The Labor Party oversees the cartel kickback corruption cycle of life, where they take Australian workers' money and shove it in funds. Those funds then finance projects where they can skive money off the side. Then they also make sure that that funding is then used for marketing expenses, to ensure that Labor stays in government. Literally, the Mafia could not have designed a scheme as sophisticated and sanctioned in law as has been done by the modern Labor Party. And Australians are the ones who pay. Any time there is a threat to the power structures that sit behind the cartel kickback circle of life, they will fight endlessly to keep it in place. If they don't, they know the revenue sources they need to sit on the treasury bench will dry up.”
“We've heard about the problems through what's been voiced in Senate estimates today. There's what's been going on in the Queensland parliament, the scrutiny today. Then, of course, there have been the nonanswers that the minister has provided in the House of Representatives today. She won't give simple bits of information like whether she requested reports from the CFMEU administrator. She won't address the allegations of corruption in the CFMEU. It could be a choice of wilful blindness because she didn't want to see corruption—and didn't want to hear about corruption—because then she wouldn't be accountable for the corruption. She won't even reveal to this place the report that was handed to her by the CFMEU administrator.”
“And then they use that money to launder it—to drive it through marketing mechanisms or whatever it is—so that it goes back into the campaign coffers of the Australian Labor Party to keep them entrenched. They always want to take more of Australians' money because they want to control Australians. At a state level, state Labor governments propose projects. Those projects are then used to siphon money and raise the expectations of taking money from people's superannuation funds, again. so that the beneficiaries can be those who are members of the unions. It's the cartel kickback circle of life. Where has it been enlivened more than the CFMEU? We found out all about that today, about what's been going on, in the Wood inquiry in Queensland, which has directly exposed the CFMEU-Labor Party cartel of corruption.”
“It's a way to maximise their grab, their take and their pathway to get money into the kickback cartel cycle of life, to provide the liquidity for the modern Labor Party to campaign so they can sit in office. You just need to understand how the cartel kickback circle of life works. You have the trade union movement that takes money from workers' wages. They then, through law, compel people to be in funds that they control. They then campaign and fund the Labor Party to sit on the treasury bench. Once they're on the treasury bench they try and take as much money as they can from Australian workers' wages and force it into funds that they control.”
“Today the modern Labor Party is not a party of organised workers. It is a party for organised capital, where they seek to entrench the vested interests of industry funds, particularly the funds that profiteer and take from people's retirement savings. They take that money. They funnel, siphon, launder or wash—whatever word you want to use—then pass it on through kickbacks to the Australian Labor Party and its campaign coffers. It's either that or the trade union movement. The bigger the volume of money, the more they can just shave money off the top and use it towards ill-gotten and corrupt gains. That is the basis on which this legislation is put before this parliament. It's a way to maximise the revenue in the funds they control.”
“Thank you, Deputy Speaker Scrymgour. I am under no illusion that I am an inadequate replacement for the member for Casey. However, in the spirit in which he has appeared in the chamber, I am honoured to nonetheless follow him. It is important to speak on this piece of legislation because the Labor Party wants this legislation to be about, somehow, making the case that they're being generous on the issue of superannuation, but let's be very clear about this. This bill is an omnibus bill. It is running about 10 different agendas under the banner of thinking that it is justified because it has the word 'superannuation' in it. There is a component in this legislation where the government is saying they're supporting superannuation choice. The problem is it isn't the choice of Australians; it's the choice of the fund managers.”
“This is how $15 billion was fleeced from Victorian and Australian taxpayers, through big build projects that have been contributed to by the Victorian government, the Victorian taxpayer and the Australian taxpayer, and found its way into organised crime, criminal syndicates and bikie gangs. The least the minister and the Prime Minister could do is actually answer basic questions truthfully and honestly in this parliament about what they knew when, what they requested, and, more to the point, the type of the report that every single member that opposes this motion is going to be condemned for—seeking to run interference for that agenda.”