No surprise Labor and the unions are spinning in ever decreasing circles as Armageddon approaches!!!!

And Jacqui Lambie has them hanging on suspenders!!!




SA Senators set to help Govt pass union crackdown laws
Michelle Grattan / The Conversation CANBERRA Monday November 11, 2019

The government appears set to secure Senate support this week for tough legislation to crack down on bad behaviour in the union movement, after the near finalisation of an agreement with Centre Alliance for several significant changes.


Photo: AAP/Kelly Barnes

The bill deals with officials and unions that consistently break existing laws. The federal court could disqualify the person from holding office or deregister the union or a branch of it.

The legislation – which has its origin in the royal commission into trade union behaviour – also proposes a public interest test for amalgamations of unions.

Centre Alliance has sought changes to raise the threshold for disqualifications and deregistrations. These include:

inserting a system of demerit points as a threshold for applications, so unions or officials would not be acted against for minor infringements. An official or union would have to reach a minimum penalty threshold over the preceding decade
For an individual, that would be 180 penalty points over 10 years for a breach of various laws or contempt of court in relation to these laws. A union would have to reach 900 penalty points over 10 years before it could be considered.

the power to apply to the federal court for deregistration or disqualification to rest only with the Registered Organisations Commissioner, not with the minister or interested parties.
This would make the process more independent. It would bring the change into line with the Corporations Act, where only the Australian Securities and Investments Commission can move for disqualification of directors.

Ensuring that the federal court could only deregister a union or disqualify an official for grave misconduct. The court would also consider whether a public interest element provided exonerating circumstances.
In another change proposed by Centre Alliance, the public interest test for unions mergers would only be triggered where one or both organisations had a history of misconduct.

The threshold would be that a union had a substantial number of compliance events over 10 years.



Centre Alliance’s Rex Patrick said on Sunday the party was “close” to final agreement with the government. It had been working constructively with industrial relations minister Christian Porter who had been “obliging”.

The bill in its original form was a “sledge hammer to crack a nut when what was needed was a nut cracker,” Patrick said.

Lambie has previously said she will vote for the bill unless militant construction union official John Setka resigns his union positions, which he has refused to do.



Although the legislation is aimed at unions, the government points out it also covers employer organisations.



Mandatory minimum sentences also a headache for Labor
Labor faces a wedge on another piece of legislation – a bill to impose mandatory minimum sentences for child sex crimes under Commonwealth law. The ALP opposes the mandatory sentencing aspects.

Porter, who is also attorney general, said about 39% of all child sex offenders convicted of Commonwealth offences didn’t spend any time in prison.

“The Morrison government believes that is simply not good enough, which is why we have proposed mandatory minimum jail terms to ensure the punishment fits the crime.”

Bit more Union thugs crushing here

https://indaily.com.au/news/politics/2019/11/11/sa-senators-set-to-help-govt-pas...

I've been whispering in La Lambie's ear about not attacking her natural constituents and not becoming just another Hanson, by talking big about the 'ordinary people' while helping drive them into the sparse paddocks so their 'betters' can get the best feed and water in this never-ending economic drought caused by mismanagement at the highest levels.......

Thanks for reminding me to remind her again..

But back to the topic and leaving the HATE behind. Like ScoMo does. And what does the future hold for the naughty unions now ? 

Could this be the key to start the Australian economic engine once the union thug menace is silenced ?




Deal to disqualify union bullies on verge of passing Senate
Andrew Tillett Political Correspondent Nov 11, 2019 — 12.00am

Rogue union officials face being drummed out of the construction industry within weeks – the Morrison government is poised to clinch a deal that will enable a crackdown on union militancy when senators return to Canberra on Monday.

Only some last-minute haggling remains over provisions regulating union mergers in the government's union integrity bill, and key crossbench senator Rex Patrick has indicated that he is satisfied with the amendments so far.


Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter has agreed to several of Rex Patrick's amendments for the union integrity bill.  Alex Ellinghausen

Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter told The Australian Financial Review he believed the government would be able to accommodate Senator Patrick.

While the legislation was not retrospective – meaning officials such as Victorian construction union boss John Setka would start with a clean slate – Mr Porter said the "clock would start ticking" once the new regime was in place and he did not expect the Registered Organisations Commission to delay acting.

"At the moment, the CFMMEU is breaching workplace industrial laws on construction sites three or four times a week," he said.

"If they continued on that course, it would be a matter of, I would say, weeks before you would see applications to disqualify individual officials and months before you see applications to deregister a part of that organisation.

"Alternatively the bill might act as a deterrent and they might break the habit of their industrial lifetime and stop breaching laws on construction sites.

"Either way, it's a better alternative for the public than to continue paying increased construction costs."

The bill, officially known as the Ensuring Integrity legislation, is not listed for debate this week but it is widely expected that, once the government is certain of the numbers, it will bring it on for a vote, which needs to happen by Wednesday.

The Morrison government is trying to scam the Senate crossbench into believing they have improved this bill.
— ACTU president Michele O'Neil

To get legislation through the Senate, the government needs support from three of five remaining crossbenchers.

Senator Patrick and Centre Alliance colleague Stirling Griff can provide two votes, while senator Jacqui Lambie has declared she will vote for the legislation while Mr Setka remains in his job. One Nation's two senators, who will meet Mr Porter on Tuesday, could also vote for the legislation.

The changes Senator Patrick has sought and have been agreed to include a demerit points system so that only union officials who commit significant or repeated breaches are disqualified; allowing only the independent Registered Organisations Commissioner to launch an action against a union or official; and giving judicial officers greater discretion in considering the gravity of an offence and a public interest defence for union action.

The outstanding issue is around union amalgamations – Senator Patrick wants only unions with a record of misconduct to be subjected to a public interest test before being allowed to merge.

"We are close. I think we will get there," he said.

"We've managed to significantly soften the bill [and] we have the view it will only cause issues to unions that regularly break the law."

'Coat of paint'


Senator Michaelia Cash arrives at the Federal court in Melbourne to give evidence earlier this year.



The senators will soon be rejoined by Jim Molan after NSW Liberal party members overwhelmingly endorsed him to fill the vacancy to be left by Arthur Sinodinos, who has been appointed the next ambassador to the US.

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/deal-to-disqualify-union-bullies-on-verge-o...

The "independents" are going for all they can get for agreeing to pass the lego.




Hanson, Porter negotiating on union bill
Finbar O'Mallon AAP Tuesday, 12 November 2019 7:23 am


The federal government's union-busting bill is being discussed with One Nation. Credit: AAP

The federal government will meet with Pauline Hanson's One Nation to try to secure the passage of its controversial union-busting bill through the upper house.



But Electrical Trades Unions national secretary Allen Hicks has said this would "simply put lipstick on a pig".

Senator Patrick told ABC on Tuesday he and fellow-Centre Alliance senator Stirling Griff essentially supported the bill.

"We're just crossing the 't's and dotting the 'i's," Senator Patrick said.

He waved off concerns his demerit points system would lead to a 'three-strikes, you're out' approach, with unions saying the courts would have to consider the context of the breaches.

Senator Patrick said the government's union watchdog, the Registered Organisation Commission, would have to prove systematic problems within unions.

https://7news.com.au/politics/hanson-porter-negotiating-on-union-bill-c-551983

Oh Gweggy, Bammy makes quite few nasty personal attacks often at me but I simply ignore it.

And the quote he used was not a personal attack on anyone as it was simply a comment about the topic.

Bammy is simply annoyed because I am quite successful at posting the TRUTH and the FACTS which are definitely not supporting Labor.

I suggest Bammy do more work on looking at the TRUTH and the FACTS rather than waste his time trying to attack me. He has tried this before.

Things is looking grim for Labor without much joy to be seen.

juliar wrote on Nov 12^th, 2019 at 10:16am:

macman wrote on Nov 13^th, 2019 at 9:42am:

Why have rules if they are not enforced? The amount of stuff some get away with, you would think they were protected species. Maybe juliar pays bribes? We know that's SOP for the Liberal party.

Everyone should be opposed to this ridiculous partisan legislation.

This is the gruberment kicking people who don't agree with them just because they don't agree with them.

It is purely politically motivated legislation that only serves to damage Australia.

There is nothing ambiguous about this is is just a terrible thing to do.

I sometimes wish that Labor were as mean and nasty in this way but we know that the next Labor government will not be pushing through legislation aimed at damaging Liberal party groups just out of spite, shame that.

Had Labor been willing to escalate this type of attack it may make the rotten nasty Liberal baboons think twice in the future.