Lambie, Sen Jacqui

Senator LAMBIE (Tasmania) (14:49): Given that the senator agrees that the CFMEU leadership is involved in a wide range of serious criminal activities—blackmail, extortion, death threats and assault—and associations with outlaw bikie gangs, killers and underworld figures, and given that there is little difference between the CFMEU and the BLF, can the senator explain why his government, that has now been in office for two years, has not deregistered the CFMEU, just as it knows the Hawke-Labor government did in 1986? Why have you not deregistered the BLF?