The Royal Commission into Trade Unions - Statement by ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver
31 August 2015
Tony Abbott’s Royal Commission is terminally tarnished and Commissioner Heydon’s decision to dig in and stay despite the overwhelming perception of bias confirms this.
The ACTU has always maintained that the Royal Commission is a political witch hunt by Tony Abbott designed to weaken his political opponents.
When appointing Commissioner Dyson Heydon to the role, Tony Abbott said you could “trust his judgement”.
However, deciding to speak at a Liberal Party fundraiser demonstrates a serious lack of judgement and the way in which the Commission has secretively handled this entire process has raised more questions than it has provided answers.
It doesn’t pass the sniff test.
The simple fact is that you do not attend a political party event if you do not support, or are not sympathetic to the cause.
Commissioner Heydon has sat in judgement on himself and found in his own favour.
What we are left with now is a multi-million dollar Royal Commission that is tainted – everything that has happened until now and everything that will happen in the future is stained by these events.
The only reasonable course of action available to Prime Minister Abbott is to end this political witch hunt immediately.
Mr Abbott must stop the farce – stop wasting millions of tax-payers’ dollars on his tainted political inquiry and he must get on with what he was elected to do – govern.
This is nothing more than a political distraction. Mr Abbott must stop with the politics and start governing.
He can do this today. The Australian public is waiting.
31 August 2015
Tony Abbott’s Royal Commission is terminally tarnished and Commissioner Heydon’s decision to dig in and stay despite the overwhelming perception of bias confirms this.
The ACTU has always maintained that the Royal Commission is a political witch hunt by Tony Abbott designed to weaken his political opponents.
When appointing Commissioner Dyson Heydon to the role, Tony Abbott said you could “trust his judgement”.
However, deciding to speak at a Liberal Party fundraiser demonstrates a serious lack of judgement and the way in which the Commission has secretively handled this entire process has raised more questions than it has provided answers.
It doesn’t pass the sniff test.
The simple fact is that you do not attend a political party event if you do not support, or are not sympathetic to the cause.
Commissioner Heydon has sat in judgement on himself and found in his own favour.
What we are left with now is a multi-million dollar Royal Commission that is tainted – everything that has happened until now and everything that will happen in the future is stained by these events.
The only reasonable course of action available to Prime Minister Abbott is to end this political witch hunt immediately.
Mr Abbott must stop the farce – stop wasting millions of tax-payers’ dollars on his tainted political inquiry and he must get on with what he was elected to do – govern.
This is nothing more than a political distraction. Mr Abbott must stop with the politics and start governing.
He can do this today. The Australian public is waiting.
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