QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Ms SPENDER (Wentworth) (15:07): My question is for the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. The government's Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Building Cooperative Workplaces No. 1) Bill 2026 would allow the Commonwealth to legally discriminate against businesses without an enterprise agreement or those without a union named. But a not dissimilar scheme in Victoria was found by the Watson report to have been used and weaponised by the CFMEU, costing taxpayers billions and supporting organised crime.

My question is: how can these provisions be a good idea from the point of view of either preventing corruption or getting value for money for government spending?