Sunday, April 17, 2016

ACTU: Federal Government must abandon the ABCC stunt

15 April 2016

ACTU President Ged Kearney will be in Canberra on Monday 18 of April 2016 for the Questions for Malcolm event as part of the Build a Better Future campaign.

Ms Kearney will be joined at the event by a delegation of community members who will be calling on the Turnbull Government to end the games they are playing with the crossbench and return to the business of government.

Local jobs, health, education and a fair tax system are the issues Australians want prioritised. The ABCC legislation is a waste of precious time that will do nothing apart from removing protection for workers in building and construction.

During the period of the most aggressive activities of the ABCC in the last years of the Howard Government, workplace fatalities in construction peaked at 48 deaths in 2006 and 51 deaths in 2007, making them the worst two years for deaths in construction in the last decade.

In contrast, 30 deaths were reported in 2012 following the abolition of the ABCC – the lowest number of deaths in the past ten years.

Quotes attributable to Ged Kearney;

  • “49% of Australians either don’t know or don’t care about the ABCC . The Turnbull Government’s attempt to re-instate this out of date agency has nothing to do with effective governance and is a blatant example of cynical political manoeuvring.”
  • “Australians deserve a government that spends its time addressing the issues that matter to workers, families and communities , rather than trying to double-bluff its way into an early election.”
  • “Through our Build a Better Future campaign we know that local jobs, health, education and a fairer tax system are the issues that Australians want addressed.” “The ABCC would do nothing to combat corruption, it would deny people their civil liberties and leave workers without protection in the workplace.”

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