ABCC - Should be renamed Australian Banking Corruption Commission (Mike Carlton Tweet)
We have so many urgent things needing debate in Parliament but Mad Malcolm is only focused on Union Bashing.
He should therefore start with bashing ABA the Bankers Union! Australians are drowning in debt and we have the
highest household debt in the world!!! Our property bubble is about to burst.
Home Owners are being thrown out of their own homes due to theft by Bankers.
We have mega problems for the economy and we have an extreme right Bankers Party trying everything to thwart
consumers' right to a Royal Commission into Banks.
Secret Heydon files opened for Hinch, One Nation
The Australian 12:00am October 26, 2016
David Crowe
The Coalition has made another move to persuade Senate crossbenchers to back its workplace relations reforms, offering access to a secret royal commission report to urge them to help curb union power in the building industry.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash has made the document available to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and crossbencher Derryn Hinch, repeating an approach used earlier this year to help make the case for the reforms.
In a sign of the tightening race to secure the votes for the government changes, Labor turned its fire on Family First senator Bob Day yesterday in the hope of preventing him from voting on the bills on the grounds he intended to resign from the upper house.
But The Australian has been told that Senator Day is determined to help restore the Australian Building and Construction Commission and aims to turn up to parliament next month to vote for the government bill.
The unpublished final volume of the royal commission into trade union corruption has been a key issue of contention since the end of 2014, when commissioner Dyson Heydon ordered it be kept secret because of the risk to witnesses who might be identified. Senator Hinch spent two and a half hours reading the report and Malcolm Roberts, a One Nation senator from Queensland, also gained access to the report on behalf of his colleagues. The two senators had to sign nondisclosure agreements.
Similar moves in January, when crossbenchers in the previous Senate sought access to the document, triggered demands from Labor that all parties be -allowed to read the report.
Senator Hinch has vowed to take a “pro-worker, anti-corruption” approach to the ABCC bill and a separate bill to set up a Registered Organisation Commission to toughen sanctions against union officials and industry group executives who misuse funds.
One Nation has indicated support for the changes, but will only make its decision on the day of the vote, while the Nick Xenophon Team is seeking amendments to secure payments for subcontractors and the Liberal Democratic Party’s David Leyonhjelm is seeking concessions after his row last week over gun laws.
While Senator Day announced on October 17 his companies were in trouble and his liabilities could exceed his assets, he has not been bankrupted and only indicated his intention to resign.
Senate rules state a senator is disqualified if he or she becomes bankrupt, but this process could take months and may not occur at all for Senator Day when there is said to be investor interest in his property business.
Senator Leyonhjelm said he hoped Senator Day could stay in the Senate.