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Judgment day for union thugs/thieves
Dec 30th, 2015 at 5:59am
 
LABOR leader Bill Shorten’s successor at the Australian Workers’ Union could face criminal charges as early as today when the Royal Commissioner’s report into trade union corruption is tabled.

Victorian MP Cesar Melhem has stated that allegations that he created false invoices for $100,000 a year payments to the union are “an insult”. Mr Melhem is one of several union officials that counsel assisting the commission has said should face criminal charges.

Commissioner Dyson Heydon’s final report was handed to Governor-General Peter Cosgrove on Monday and will be tabled today.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday said he had read the recommendations and would “have more to say” on the report today.

Opposition employment spokesman Brendan O’Connor said the commission was an $80 million attack on workplace relations and called the report’s release in the summer break “political cowardice of the highest order”.

Mr Shorten was grilled for two days at the commission about deals he struck as head of the AWU, including one that dudded cleaners out of penalty rates in return for an annual payment to the union of $25,000.

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However, Counsel assisting Jeremy Stoljar said: “There is no submission Mr Bill Shorten may have engaged in any criminal or unlawful conduct.”

Since that finding Mr Shorten has told colleagues in Canberra he was not close to Mr Melham.

Former Labor PM Julia Gillard also faced the commission. In his interim report Commissioner Heydon found there were no grounds for criminality over her involvement in a union slush fund.

He recommended her former boyfriend Bruce Wilson and his former AWU colleague Ralph Blewitt be prosecuted for their involvement.

The commission has ­focused on the CFMEU. It heard evidence NSW secretary Brian Parker had close dealings with businessman George Alex, who allegedly provided him with prostitutes. CFMEU officials Michael Greenfield and Luke Collier were both charged with intimidation after the commission heard a female Fair Work inspector was called a “f ... ing slut”.

Victorian CFMEU officials John Setka and Shaun Reardon were earlier this month charged with blackmailing the Boral company.

Commission lawyers recommended National Union of Workers boss Derrick Belan be investigated by police for using union cash to pay for dating websites, a private eye and a tattoo of his mum and dad on his leg.

TIME THE POLICE STEPPED UP, SAYS ABBOTT

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FORMER prime minister Tony Abbott hopes the findings of the royal commission will empower police forces to halt union law-breaking.

“I hope that as a result police forces will be much more ready to treat union law-breaking as something to be stamped out,” he said yesterday.

He highlighted allegations of illegal and corrupt conduct and “thuggery, intimidation and coercion, particularly by the CFMEU” for particular attention.

Mr Abbott said many had been shocked by the evidence that had linked “very ­influential people” to a “netherworld” of alleged union corruption.

Mr Abbott’s government launched the commission into trade union corruption and he said he was confident that the report today would contain very strong recommendations for reform.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/royal-commission-into-trade-union-corr...
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Reply #1 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 6:33am
 
That's great.  Now I hope the immediate thing next is white collar crime and corporate corruption.
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Reply #2 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 6:36am
 
also loved the timing of the release - right on election year.  Hmmm..politics anyone?
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Reply #3 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 6:52am
 
stunspore wrote on Dec 30th, 2015 at 6:36am:
also loved the timing of the release - right on election year.  Hmmm..politics anyone?


yesterday I saw people saying that it was the "Quiet" time of the year where people used it to release sensitive issues

has this changed in a day?
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Reply #4 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:24am
 
The release date is isn't happening over the holidays.  Whereas the the ministerial changes did.

Short summary of this RC:
-was extended to keep it going all towards election year
-additional money was added to it (while the commission into pedophilia was reduced)
-an RC which is hardly a national priority compared to say: domestic abuse, war in iraq over no wmd, financial products and advice such as CBA's storm
-held by a judge which demonstrated open bias or at least did not show disinterest

Questions to ask:
-will it provide more prosecutions than the pedophilia RC?
-which is more important to resolve and cause great change, especially to its victims?
-was it value for money?
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Reply #5 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:43am
 
Labor should hold a royal commission into the political misuse of royal commissions.
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Reply #6 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:45am
 
Apologies - the report did occur over the holidays - monday.
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Reply #7 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:47am
 
President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Dec 30th, 2015 at 6:52am:
stunspore wrote on Dec 30th, 2015 at 6:36am:
also loved the timing of the release - right on election year.  Hmmm..politics anyone?


yesterday I saw people saying that it was the "Quiet" time of the year where people used it to release sensitive issues

has this changed in a day?


Different people different opinions ? the world keeps turning.

I am with the other group - the sneaky release on new years ever to help cover up the disgraced commissions findings as much as possible. However the oncoming election will be provided with ammunition from it no doubt.

Bit of a balancing act maybe ? Cover up what you can but also take advantage of what you can get away with.
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Reply #8 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:49am
 
Title should be, judgement day.....for maybe one person.....for a 100 milllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllion taxpayers dollars Cheesy Cheesy

Oh dear, let me get out aborts ol marker pen again,
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Reply #9 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:52am
 
This being a political forum - I guess i can see why there is more focus (and rightly so) on things such as union corruption as it is linked to political parties while pedo RC is generally apolitical - though it does seem to affect mostly religious or religion aligned organisations.  Wonder why.
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Reply #10 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:53am
 
stunspore wrote on Dec 30th, 2015 at 6:36am:
also loved the timing of the release - right on election year.  Hmmm..politics anyone?



the Royal is over.... what would you have him do with his report....

get your permission when to release it???>.. Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

what a dope.btw its still 2015.
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Reply #11 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:55am
 
cods wrote on Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:53am:
stunspore wrote on Dec 30th, 2015 at 6:36am:
also loved the timing of the release - right on election year.  Hmmm..politics anyone?



the Royal is over.... what would you have him do with his report....

get your permission when to release it???>.. Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

what a dope.btw its still 2015.


Didnt work out so well did it Codsy, no Gillard, no Shorten  Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
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Reply #12 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 8:08am
 
So lets get this straight, the RC managed to stitch up less people in a federal investigation for a higher cost than ICAC did, in one state?
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Reply #13 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 8:28am
 
Its time wrote on Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:49am:
Title should be, judgement day.....for maybe one person.....for a 100 milllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllion taxpayers dollars Cheesy Cheesy

Oh dear, let me get out aborts ol marker pen again,
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I dunno lets face it..

THE HSU union saw more corruption than any other UNION then or now...


are you sorry that all came to and END... well we hope it did... I am sure they will find other ways and means of using other peoples money for their own ends...

as you lefties sure hate to see unions come UNDONE>... dont you?

.Dnarever wrote on Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:43am:
Labor should hold a royal commission into the political misuse of royal commissions.



oh dear.. unless they can come up with one for the LIBERALS that is..

  Wink Wink Wink dont forget the good old double standards that labor live by.


what are you lefties AFRAID OF?...not another THOMO where in  the end he confesses he lied and lied and lied... Grin Grin

stunspore wrote on Dec 30th, 2015 at 6:33am:
That's great.  Now I hope the immediate thing next is white collar crime and corporate corruption.



yeah PALMER had better watch out.. Smiley

you seem to forget Alan Bond.. HiH.Bell corp.

we spent a zillion trying to get Chris Skase back dont recall any lefties whingeing about that???.. Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

oh alright! thats different we know.
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Reply #14 - Dec 30th, 2015 at 8:31am
 
Its time wrote on Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:55am:
cods wrote on Dec 30th, 2015 at 7:53am:
stunspore wrote on Dec 30th, 2015 at 6:36am:
also loved the timing of the release - right on election year.  Hmmm..politics anyone?



the Royal is over.... what would you have him do with his report....

get your permission when to release it???>.. Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

what a dope.btw its still 2015.


Didnt work out so well did it Codsy, no Gillard, no Shorten  Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin




oh dear...another personal attask from a lefty.. who would have thought? Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

never mind dear I am sure you will have an original thought one day....we can always hope.. Sad

at least I don t have to rely on others[very doubtful wit] to make up a post... Grin Grin Grin Grin
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