commissioner Dyson Heydon billed as star of Liberal Party fundraiser - Not much for integrity or justice

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commissioner Dyson Heydon billed as star of Liberal Party fundraiser - Not much for integrity or justice

geomac

8 yrs ago

Justice Dyson Heydon is listed as the keynote speaker at the Sir Garfield Barwick Address on August 26 at the Castlereagh Boutique Hotel in Sydney.

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An invitation written on a Liberal Party letterhead obtained by Fairfax Media says the $80 cost should be made to the Liberal Party of Australia's NSW division. It also calls for donations if people are unable to attend.

"All proceeds from this event will be applied to state election campaigning," the invitation's fine print notes.

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/union-corruption-royal-commissioner-dyson-heydon-billed-as-star-of-liberal-party-fundraiser-20150812-giy1rr.html

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kfchugo

8 yrs ago

The real losers here are the Australian people. Most would agree that Australia's unions are rife with corruption, shady deals, standover tactics etc and there is a great need to shine a light on it all. There is also little doubt that this Royal Commission was always a cynical exercise by Tony Abbot to discredit Labor and help his waning chances of being re-elected.

The RCTU has become a dismal political fiasco, tainted by both sides of politics and one can only assume a colossal waste of taxpayers money.

With 26 union officials,so far,facing charges I would hardly call it a waste of money.

The RCTU is not a body that charges anyone , that is up to public prosecutors , the RCTU is an investigative body..

kfchugo & Pete

Australian Unions are in fact, NOT "rife with corruption, shady deals, standover tactics etc". The Royal Commission has not show any such thing.... HOWEVER, I do agree with you that the RCTU is tainted with bias and I add that it's original $85m purpose and intention was to 'find' something on Unions, so that the workers would not associate with them and therefore, the REAL BULLIES.... large corporations could do what they wanted (ie. individual annual contracts and bringing in 457 visas by the plane loads to reduce or negate any negotiating power the workers may have).

UNIONS are very much controlled and are also audited... I would like to know who the hell audited Kathy Jackson Union records, THEY should be brought before the Royal Commission, as well BUT they don't need to answer to anything.

Pete, you state that the RCTU is not a body that charges anyone after having made the FALSE statement that "26 union officials, so far, facing charges".

Most of the stuff found is PETTY stuff and the Abbott Govt. has undertaken more CORRUPTION in the short time they have been in power, than all the UNIONS put together AND the amounts involved have been a lot, lot larger (with the exception of Liberal's Kathy Jackson's $1.4m).

It comes down to unions trying to get more money in Workers pockets and the Corporations/Employers trying to screw down Worker costs and take more money for themselves.

The UNIONS, warts and ALL, are their to counterbalance the power of the Corporations/Employers and ensure a degree of fairness and equity and safety for the Workers.

Economically, it is important that both institutions exist and work within the market place.

geomac

8 yrs ago

Crikey paywall

" In many ways the damage to the trade union royal commission’s credibility is now an echo, at the federal level, of the self-hobbling difficulties of the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption. Over the past year ICAC made so many major mistakes that it is currently consumed by having to defend its own actions. Any real corruption-busting effort has become secondary.

But that is the inbuilt danger for any government that sets up a purportedly independent body to do political dirt-digging against their opposition and its supporters -- and for choosing a commissioner it believed was likely to produce the desired result. The biter is soon bit.

And this whole tortured and costly pantomime is unnecessary anyway. If corruption is a criminal offence, why not let the criminal law deal with it? "

commissioner Dyson Heydon billed as star of Liberal Party fundraiser - Not much for integrity or justice

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