The Australian Greens have said Labor and the Liberals have teamed up to ram through rushed CFMEU legislation in an unprecedented attack on the rule of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens say that by doing a rushed deal to pass the flawed legislation, Labor and Liberal have ensured Michaelia Cash will be able to appoint a new administrator of the CFMEU if there is a change of government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the weekend the NSW Council for Civil Liberties said the powers set out in Labor\u2019s bill were \u201cfar-reaching\u201d and established a dangerous precedent for the trade union movement and the rights of individuals to \u201cnatural justice and procedural fairness\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt MP:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens will always oppose sexism, corruption, thuggery and bullying, but Labor and the Liberals have just cut a deal to ram through flawed and draconian laws that threaten fundamental rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCivil liberties groups have rightly said this bill is a threat to freedom of association and the rights of all unions and membership based organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis bill means that if there is a change of government, Michaelia Cash could appoint Tony Abbott to be administrator of one of Australia\u2019s most significant unions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens told the government we were prepared to negotiate on the legislation and seek to address some of the serious concerns in the bill, but instead Labor has worked with the anti-union, anti-worker Liberals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australian Greens have said Labor and the Liberals have teamed up to ram through rushed CFMEU legislation in an unprecedented attack on the rule of law. The Greens say that by doing a rushed deal to pass the flawed legislation, Labor and Liberal have ensured Michaelia Cash will be able to appoint a new … Continue reading “Labor and the Liberals cut deal for rushed, deeply flawed legislation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28566,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28565\/revisions\/28566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}