Jacqui Lambie On The ABCC Bill: 'There's More Holes In It Than A Target At The Shooting Range'
HuffPost Australia

Posted: 21/03/2016


Jacqui Lambie will be voting against the construction corruption watchdog legislation, but managed to keep her sense of humour over the double dissolution, saying it was "like a Tatts lotto drawn on a Saturday night".   

Speaking on Q&A on Monday night, Lambie said the ABCC bill has "more holes in it than a target at a shooting range".

She said she doesn't buy Commissioner Dyson Heydon's claims that the findings of the Royal Commission into trade union corruption show "widespread and deep-seated" corruption.

"I can tell you what is contained in those secret reports -- there is nothing there that is not normal that happens on the outside and in other places, whether that's even what's going on in our banking and finance sector," Lambie told the audience on Q&A.

"I don't know what the Royal Commissioner is trying to pull here but there is nothing that even resembles a grave threat to the power and authority of the Australian states.

"What I have seen has been very disappointing for $80 million of your taxpayers' money." 

Lambie said she would not be blackmailed and the fate of her seat lies in the hands of Tasmanians, as she vowed to keep "the bastards honest" in Canberra.   

But when Tony Jones said Lambie could end up with a few senate seats in Tasmania after the senate voting legislation was passed, Lambie -- who has established the Jacqui Lambie Network -- played along.

"With the double D coming up, it will be like the Tatts Lotto on a Saturday night," Lambie said to a crowd of laughter.   

Sitting beside Lambie on the panel, Liberal MP Josh Frydenberg argued the construction corruption watchdog bills were "important economic reform".



    — ABC Q&A (@QandA) March 21, 2016

Liberal Democrats Senator David Lehjonhelm and Senator Ricky Muir both said they would not vote in favour of the ABCC legislation in its current form, while Glenn Lazarus wants the bill to be broadened to cover corruption in banking, finance and politics.

Six crossbenchers need to vote in favour of the bills, otherwise there will be an early double dissolution election on July 2. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the move, along with bringing the budget forward in a shock announcement on Monday morning.

Well done Ms Lambie for coming out and telling us what we all know , we need a national corruption watchdog , why do the Libtards not want a blanket approach to corruption Australia 

Everyone except Leftwinger - hear no evil, see no evil.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2016 at 7:11am:


And everybody knows the Libtards want a docile compliant workforce that will come in for 3rd world country wages , sadly for the Libtards we will continue to fight whilst you enjoy the benefits that come with it.

Lambie got her job under false pretenses some prefer to forget that???>..

she has noi right to her opinion or vote...as far as I am concerned..

GET IN UNDER YOUR OWN STEAM LAMBIE .. then I might take notice of you.

in the mean time you also shot the person in the back that was responsible for getting you into the senate...

lets not forget that either...

so another one not to be trusted at any price..

you may forget all that crook when it suits your cause..
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but some of us dont.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2016 at 7:11am:

Except Heydon didn’t find any evidence of it.

Meanwhile, there have been scandals in the finance/banking/wealth management area, bullying of employees in 7/11 and other companies.

Howard’s ABCC cost over $100m, caused a drop in productivity and more injuries and fatalities on construction sites. Productivity surged after the star chamber ABCC was abolished.

cods wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2016 at 7:35am:


CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP 

Jovial Monk wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2016 at 7:39am:



oh really?  so the 100 or so CMFEU people before the courts is... nothing?


you are a really really dumb schmuck.  You dont even accept things that are obvious.