Mr BURKE (Watson—Minister for the Arts, Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Cyber Security, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and Leader of the House) (14:41): I thank the Chief Government Whip for the question. The No. 1 job of any union is to protect its members and to look out for their interests. The reported behaviour from the construction division of the CFMEU is the opposite of this, and the government has zero tolerance for violence or thuggery or intimidation. The best way to deal with this is by putting the union into administration. We made clear that we would support an application from the regulator, the general manager of the Fair Work Commission, and we would intervene in support of an application for the union to be put into administration. We also made clear that, if the union in any way resisted that application, we were willing to legislate. It's clear that the union has not agreed with what was put forward in the Federal Court, and therefore we are legislating. There are effectively two groups that have been seeking to delay administration. We always presumed there would be the lawyers from the CFMEU. We hadn't suspected there would be the senators of the Liberal and National parties. But we have a situation now where the unity ticket on delaying the union being put into administration— Mr Wallace interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Fisher will cease interjecting. Mr BURKE: What some of the leadership of that construction division could have only dreamed of is being considered to be delivered for them by the Leader of the Opposition and his senators. The impact of administration is that the government's bill will ensure a clear pathway for an administrator to take charge of all branches of the construction division of the CFMEU for up to three years, to review individual union officials and determine whether or not they should retain their position— Mr Wallace interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Fisher is warned. Mr BURKE: and to examine how money is being spent and whether money being spent is in the best interests of members. Legislation puts obligations on officers, on employees and on professional advisers to cooperate with the administrator to access all assets, all property and documents for the purpose of the administration. If you had deregistration, though, the entire leadership would remain in place. Because of laws that were changed under WorkChoices, their capacity to appear before the commission would remain constant. There is an opportunity now where, if we want to clean up this organisation, the legislation is before the parliament, and it should be passed.