Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

I can inform Senator McKenzie that the government is taking immediate action to clean up the building industry in Victoria and indeed across Australia. Earlier this year we published an advance release of the Fair and Lawful Building Sites Code, which sets out the government's expected standards of workplace relations conduct by those contractors who want to perform work funded by the Commonwealth government. Any contractor who does not comply with the code will not be entitled to work on Commonwealth funded projects. This new code, together with a re-established Australian Building and Construction Commission, will stamp out the worst excesses of industrial relations lawlessness in the Australian building industry and will restore the rule of law to an industry too long plagued by a culture of lawlessness.