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The Greens have also criticised the legislation as giving too much power over unions to the government.
Murray Watt rejects that too:
I think this is just a ridiculous example he’s [Adam Bandt] giving, to disguise the fact yesterday the Greens were the only party in the Parliament who decided to side with John Setka and the organised crime and bikie elements around the CFMEU, rather than taking the side of the Australian people.
We had a vote in the Parliament yesterday, in the Senate, that called on the Greens to say they wouldn’t take political donations from the CFMEU construction division, they refused to vote for that. So I think it’s pretty clear what the motivation here is in voting against this legislation.
We haven’t received a dollar from the CFMEU for a decade, the Coalition received $175,000 in the last two years, Labor has received millions of dollars and what we say is we have not received the money, it is not why we are engaged in the debate.
I would completely disagree this is an attack on construction workers. Quite the opposite. Construction workers and members of the CFMEU construction division have been let down by the leaders, where we’ve seen organised crime and bikies infiltrate the union at the expense of the members.
It’s about rebuilding the union, get back its focus on representing the interests of its members, and once and for all eliminating the organised crime and bikie influence that’s taken hold.
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