Senator WONG (South Australia—Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (09:35): What do we have today? We have a government with no integrity—a government whose integrity is in tatters—coming into this chamber and demanding that the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019 be passed in the name of ensuring integrity. This bill is actually about undermining the capacity of working people to organise. A government that has no integrity wants to push it through. We have a government in which a minister has doctored documents— Senator Cormann: Mr President, I have a point of order. Senator Wong is making an imputation against a member of the other place, and she should withdraw. Obviously, these sorts of imputations are inconsistent with the standing orders. Senator WONG: On the point of order, Mr President: I'm happy for us to look at the Hansard, but I think Mr Taylor himself has recognised that the documents were doctored. He has said that himself, has he not? Senator Cormann: Mr President, on the point of order: I raised the point of order because Senator Wong specifically alleged and made the imputation that it was Minister Taylor who doctored the documents. That is an imputation that is inaccurate and it is inconsistent with the standing orders. The PRESIDENT: Thank you. I invite Senator Wong to withdraw and rephrase. Senator WONG: I will withdraw and rephrase. He has used doctored documents. Thank you for demonstrating precisely what I'm saying, Senator Cormann. He jumped to his feet to defend a minister of the Crown who is under criminal investigation—and who is refusing to stand aside—for using doctored documents on ministerial correspondence. He has the gall to stand here and tell the Senate that this is about integrity. He was defending the Prime Minister, who has had to correct the record in the House. That's what he had to do. The Prime Minister rang his mate to check out what's happening in a criminal investigation. And you come in here and ask the crossbench of the Senate to ram through legislation that you say is about ensuring integrity! Senator Cormann says that this bill is critically important. Do you know what's critically important? That you find some integrity over there. That's what Australians would like. Do you know what's critically important? That the Prime Minister actually finds some integrity, because, I tell you what, there hasn't been much on display. I'm unsurprised that they're pretty quiet, because they're defending a cabinet minister who has used doctored documents on ministerial correspondence, who is under criminal investigation and who's refusing to stand aside. The Prime Minister rang up his mate to check on a criminal investigation. And you want to come in here and talk about integrity—seriously! This bill is not about integrity. This bill is an attack on working people and their representatives. It is the same ideological agenda that I saw 14 years ago when I stood here as the shadow employment minister. Senator Abetz was over there. You got through Work Choices and you were all rejoicing. But do you know what? It showed the Australian people what you are really like. You are obsessed with smashing trade unions and you are obsessed with reducing the power of working people to organise and debate. That is in the Liberal Party's DNA, and that is what this bill is all about. So the government is now demanding that the Senate rush through this anti-worker legislation. This is the party that implemented Work Choices, voted against— Senator Rennick interjecting— Senator WONG: Oh, tell us what you think! Why don't you stand up, Senator Rennick? You're always very tough on the back bench. Why don't you stand up and tell us what you really think about working people and trade unions? Come on: you stand up next in the debate and have the guts to actually put something on the record. The PRESIDENT: Order, Senator Wong. Please address your comments through the chair. Senator WONG: I'm taking the interjection. This is a government that says, 'We're for working people, but we're going to vote against penalty rates; we're going to vote to refuse to restore penalty rates'—for people who depend on penalty rates to pay their bills and put food on the table. It's an utter disgrace. You voted against the restoration of penalty rates. Senator Payne interjecting— Senator WONG: You may never have had to struggle, Senator Payne, but people who are relying on penalty rates do, and the fact that you walked away from them says something about you. You're pushing this bill through with your own integrity in tatters: a minister under investigation by police, a special strike force for a criminal offence, a PM who is interfering in that police investigation and a Prime Minister who is loose with the truth and who shows nothing but contempt for parliament and the principles of ministerial integrity and accountability, and you can't even bring yourselves to say in the parliament that the member for Chisholm is a fit and proper person. You can't even say that. There has never been a government with less integrity than you lot. You are all about one standard for yourselves and your mates and another for Australian workers. Well, we on this side will not stand for it. We on this side will do what we did with Work Choices. We will fight this legislation in here and we will fight it between now and the next election and we will expose your hypocrisy and your anti-worker bias, which has always been the Liberal DNA.