Mr HOLLIS —Last Monday in the chamber I raised the saga of the insolvency of Parrish Meats Supplies Pty Ltd. It is a sorry, pathetic saga involving hollow companies with no assets, fraud of the Commonwealth and deep disinterest by at least three government agencies. The collapse of Parrish Meats has also left 120 workers with a pathetic proportion of their statutory entitlements. I doubt whether the Treasurer, the Minister for Financial Services and Regulation and the Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business will read my speech, but read it they should. Then they should tell me that there is no need for government agencies to investigate the demise of Parrish Meats Supplies Pty Ltd, South Coast Bulk Carriers and Obnora. Then they should tell me that the ATO and ASIC should not investigate the string of corporate collapses involving the directorships of Mr Colin Lord and Mr Ken Parrish. Then they should tell me that the minister for workplace relations and his department should not investigate the whereabouts of taxpayers' money seemingly provided for training purposes—money shifted around a despicable business empire in a shady attempt to keep it afloat only for the benefit of the Lords and Parrishes, a family entity that takes the concept to its extremes.

I have also placed a series of questions on today's Notice Paper involving this matter. There can be no doubt that this is an outrageous case of fraud against the Commonwealth. We are talking about the fraudulent misuse of taxpayers' money. This government is determined to pursue people who tickle welfare; let us see it for once tackle the big end of town. Let us see how serious it is about fraud. People talk about fraud. I referred in my speech the other day to fraud. I have provided the evidence of fraud. People were claiming money, thousands of dollars, under training schemes. People were supposed to be employed for less than six months. Many people had worked there for years and years, and then they were signed back over. They got thousands of dollars of taxpayers' money fraudulently.

The South Coast Labor Council and I will not rest until the 120 blokes who were sacked after years of service and their families get every single cent of their entitlements from the corporate chicanery and scandals of Mr Colin Stanley Lord and Mr Sidney Kenneth Parrish.