Footnotes

CHAPTER 1 - Background and issues

[1]        Journals of the Senate, 2012, p. 3480.

[2]        Coalition Senators' Additional Comments, in Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Committee, Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2012 [Provisions], June 2012, p. 22.

[3]        Senator the Hon. Eric Abetz, Second Reading Speech, Senate Hansard, 27 November 2012, p. 9861.

[4]        Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Towards Transparency) Bill 2012, proposed new subsection  268(2).

[5]        Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Towards Transparency) Bill 2012, proposed new section 288A. Penalty units are defined in the Crimes Act 1914, ss. 4AA(1) and recently increased from $110 to $170.

[6]        Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Towards Transparency) Bill 2012, proposed new subparagraph 306(1)(b) and 306(1A)(b).

[7]        Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Towards Transparency) Bill 2012, proposed new section 358A.

[8]        Explanatory Memorandum, Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Towards Transparency) Bill 2012, p. 5.

[9]        Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, First Report for 2013, 18 February 2013, pp 76–77.

[10]      Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, No. 2 of 2013, 27 February 2013, p. 21.

[11]      Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, No. 2 of 2013, 27 February 2013, p. 22.

[12]      Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), Submission 1 and NSW Industrial Relations, Submission 2.

[13]      IPA, Submission 1, p. 2.

[14]      NSW Government, Submission 2, p. 1.

[15]      See, for example Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), Submission 6, p. 7; Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Submission  5, p. 2; Australian Industry Group (AIG), Submission 7, p. 5.

[16]      AIG, Submission 7, p. 5; ACCI, Submission 5, p. 2.

[17]      Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), Submission 3, p. 3.

[18]      Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), Submission  6, p. 6.

[19]      ACCI, Submission 5, p.1 and DEEWR, Submission 6, p. 7.

[20]      ACCI, Submission 5, p.1 and AIG, Submission 7, p. 5.

[21]      ACCI, Submission 5, p. 2.

[22]      Fair Work Commission, Submission 3, pp 2–3.

[23]      Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Towards Transparency) Bill 2012, proposed new subparagraph 306(1)(b).

[24]      DEEWR, Submission 6, p. 6; ACCI, Submission 5, p. 1; ACTU, Submission 4, p. 14.

[25]      Explanatory Memorandum, Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Towards transparency) Bill 2012, p. 2.

[26]      DEEWR, Submission 6, p. 8.

[27]      ACTU, Submission 4, p. 6.

[28]      AIG, Submission 7, p. 2 and DEEWR, Submission 6, p. 8.

COALITION SENATORS' DISSENTING REPORT

[1]        Pia Ackerman and Lanai Vasek, 'Union boss Paul Howes backs Tony Abbott on IR reform, but says he's just trying to smear the PM', The Australian, 26 November 2012.

[2]        Address to the Australian Workers Union, the Hon. Bill Shorten MP, 19 February 2013.

[3]        Paul Osborne, 'ACTU to consider anti-corruption measures', The Australian, 4 March 2013.

[4]        Paul Osborne, 'Union to spring-clean ahead of election', The Australian, 19 February 2013.

[5]        Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), Submission 4, p. 6.

[6]        ACTU, Submission 4, p. 4.

[7]        Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), Submission 1, p. 3.

[8]        Ewin Hannan, 'Union in blockade to pay out $560,000', The Australian, 3 June 2011.

[9]        ‘Bray, Cain Lead Off Youth-ATSI-Women Session, Pledge Militant Struggle’, Maritime Workers Union of Western Australia Press Release, 25 February 2013.

[10]      Ewin Hannah and Nicolas Perpitch, 'Shorten sides with militants', The Australian, 27 February 2013, p. 1.

[11]      IPA, Submission 1, p. 5.