Unfortunately, Tim Wilson is still being Tim Wilson:

My question is to the Prime Minister. Or this guy. The Albanese Labor government decided not to deregister…

Tony Burke is on his feet immediately, because who doesn’t like a bit of sport from time to time.

There are times when abuses of the standing orders are by people who know it’s an abuse and it’s completely deliberate and I put to you this was one of those times.

Dugald tells Wilson to stick to the proper names.

Wilson is back. With that grin. You know the one.

The Albanese Labor government decided to not deregister out-of-control CFMEU and appoint an administrator. The CFMEU boss has called on his union to break into the New South Wales residential building sector saying ‘The builders who are going to get the state government money are not our builders 6789 the challenge for us is we’ve got to get into that non-union sector.”

Will the CFMEU’s plan to unionise the New South Wales residential housing sector increase prices or decrease prices?

Albanese:

We on this side of the House are the only political party in here that actually took action against the CFMEU. Those opposite… Those opposite presided over 10 years of growth in the power of John Setka in the CFMEU construction branch. Three weeks after I became leader of the Labor Party, in 2019, I kicked John Setka out of the Labor Party. And during the last term… (

And during the last term, Mr Speaker, we took action to remove the power of people who had gone, someone like John Setka who had gone from controlling the Victorian branch to then controlling the South Australian branch de facto as well, had — well, had increased his power in the union. In the Labor movement, the construction branch of the…

The interjections grow and there is a point of order but Albanese decides he can’t be bothered and sits down (he concludes his answer)