A defiant Bill Shorten has dared Tony Abbott to "bring it on" and fight Labor head-to-head over worker's rights, declaring he "relishes" the chance to front the trade union royal commission on Wednesday and "talk about what I believe to be every Australian's right – a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions".
Defiant Bill Shorten
Old mate and Labor Party Leader Bill Shorten just wanted to go down the pub for a cupla quiet ones on Sunday arvo, so he headed towards the Covent Gardens pub in Sydney A Passionate Impromptu Speech
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has given a passionate speech about Labor values to a Sydney pub crowd. Mr Shorten is set to appear before the unions royal commission in Sydney on Wednesday to answer questions about his role as an Australian Workers Union boss. In the video posted on YouTube, Mr Shorten outlines to noisy patrons at Sydney's Covent Garden Hotel on Sunday night his vision for a country where "people can organise to have a strong minimum wage and will not be subject to a royal commission".
Shorten gives pub speech ALP valuesShorten was commenting after The Australian Financial Review reported that when Parliament resumes next month, the government, as a priority, will put to the Senate two bills. If rejected, one would immediately qualify as a trigger for a double dissolution and give the government the option of going early.
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John Howard on political Royal Commissions.
Last September John Howard said
‘I am uneasy about the idea of having Royal Commissions or enquiries into essentially a political decision. … I don’t think you should ever begin to go down the American path of using the law for narrow targeted political purposes. I think the special prosecutions in the US are appalling.’
See link below to John Howard’s comments. John Menadue
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