Tuesday, 3 March 2026

 Brad BATTIN (Berwick) (13:45): How convenient that the Attorney-General can come in here with a personal explanation now, and as quick as can be, as someone who had already said she misspoke and put the facts on the table, the reality was that the Attorney-General did not report alleged crime that went to her to Victoria Police. Do you remember when the Premier said very quickly in this place that every time we raise an issue it is your responsibility to report it to Victoria Police? Yet the Attorney-General, as quick as a Patrick Dangerfield handpass from under a pack, managed to pass the buck to somebody else – ‘Not my responsibility’. Then the other side continues to say, from the Labor side, ‘Do you know what? You might want to do a fact check.’ Well, I will put the best fact check that we can on the table today: why doesn’t every person from the Victorian Labor Party back a royal commission into the $15 billion of crime and corruption here in Victoria? Why won’t they back the biggest fact check that we can have, to ensure that we know to whom and where that money has gone? Maybe there are people protecting themselves; you never know. They might be protecting people they know. They might be protecting people in the unions who keep them here, or maybe they are protecting money that has gone to the Victorian Labor Party through this corruption through the CFMEU. But it is about time that we get rid of corruption in Victoria so we can get that $15 billion back into the places it should be, which are education, housing and crime.