Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

At the request of Senator Gallagher, I move:

That further consideration of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity No. 2) Bill 2019 shall be made an order of the day for the first day of sitting after all of the following have occurred, and the Senate passes a resolution affirming it is satisfied no further legislation is required to meet the requirements of the following paragraphs:

(a) a bill to establish a national integrity commission receives royal assent;

(b) legislation implementing all of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry receives royal assent; and

(c) legislation implementing all of the interim recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety receives royal assent.

Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity No. 2) Bill 2019 was to ensure the courts were able to take appropriate and effective action in response to the repeated serious contraventions of the law by a militant minority of registered organisations. The bill represents a considered response by the government to multiple royal commissions, decades of court judgements and countless instances of bullying, harassment and intimidation of workers, small businesses and public servants, to name just a few. The bill should not be delayed any further by a Labor Party desperate to continue the shameful protection racket they've run for militant lawbreakers for too long.

Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Greens were the first party to call for a national anticorruption body and have long advocated for a national integrity commission. In fact, the Greens' bills to establish a national integrity commission passed the Senate last September, and this government has stopped the bill from getting a vote in the House. We also led the way to the royal commissions into banking and aged care. We are absolutely opposed to this so-called ensuring integrity bill, which is nothing but an attack on workers and their unions. There is no integrity in this bill. In fact, there is no integrity in this government either. The Greens support this motion.

The PRESIDE NT: The question is that motion No. 365 be agreed to.