Footnotes
CHAPTER 1 - Introduction and background
[1]
Votes and Proceedings, No. 107, 19 March 2015, p. 1211.
[2]
Journals of the Senate, No. 94, 14 May 2015, pp 2598–2599.
[3]
Journals of the Senate, No. 94, 14 May 2015, pp 2598–2599.
[4]
Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee, Fair Work
(Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013 [Provisions], December 2013.
[5]
Explanatory memorandum, Fair Work (Registered Organisations)
Amendment Bill 2014
[No. 2], p. i.
[6]
Explanatory memorandum, Fair Work (Registered Organisations)
Amendment Bill 2014
[No. 2], pp. i, 2 and 11.
[7]
Explanatory memorandum, Fair Work (Registered Organisations)
Amendment Bill 2014
[No. 2], p. ii.
[8]
Explanatory memorandum, Fair Work (Registered Organisations)
Amendment Bill 2014
[No. 2], p. xviii.
[9]
Explanatory memorandum, Fair Work (Registered Organisations)
Amendment Bill 2014
[No. 2], p. xxvi.
CHAPTER 2 - Key issues
[1]
Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee, Fair Work
(Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013 [Provisions], December 2013,
pp 10-11.
[2]
Proposed subsection 293C(1).
[3]
Department of Employment, Submission 2, p. 3.
[4]
Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee, Fair Work
(Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013 [Provisions], December 2013,
p. 11.
[5]
Proposed subparagraphs 293C(4)(a)(i) and (ii).
[6]
Department of Employment, Submission 2, p. 3.
[7]
Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee, Fair Work
(Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013 [Provisions], December 2013,
p. 11.
[8]
Proposed subsections 293G(5A) and (5B).
[9]
Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee, Fair Work
(Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013 [Provisions], December 2013,
p. 13.
[10]
Proposed subsection 293M(2).
[11]
Australian Mines and Metals Association, Submission 10, p. 1.
[12]
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia,
Submission 3, p. 1.
[13]
Interim Report of the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and
Corruption, p. 56.
[14]
[2014] FCA 970.
[15]
Department of Employment, Submission 2, p. 6.
[16]
Department of Employment, Submission 2, p. 1.
[17]
Unions NSW, Submission 7.
[18]
Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce, Submission 5, p. 4.
[19]
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia, Submission 3.
[20]
Australian Industry Group, Submission 4, p. 4.
[21]
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Submission 8, p. 8.
[22]
Master Plumbers Association of NSW, Submission 6, p. 3.
[23]
Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce, Submission 5, p. 4.
[24]
Australian Council of Trade Unions, Submission 1, p. 10.
[25]
Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee, Fair Work
(Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013 [Provisions], December 2013,
p. 15.
LABOR SENATORS’ DISSENTING REPORT - Key Issues
[1]
Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, Alert Digest No. 9 of 2013
[2]
Ibid., p. 22
[3]
Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, Fifth Report of
2015, 13 May 2015,
pp 343–354.
[4]
Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, Fifth Report of
2015, 13 May 2015,
p. 343.
[5]
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Twenty-second report
of the 44th Parliament: Human rights scrutiny report, 13 May
2015, pp 47–52.
[6]
Proposed new section 337AC(2) provides a defence 'if it is proved
that the defendant intended neither to defeat the purposes of the
investigation, nor to delay or obstruct the investigation, or any proposed
investigation' (emphasis added); the onus is placed on the defendant to prove
that they did not possess the requisite intention, rather than on the
prosecution to prove that they did.
[7]
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Twenty-second report
of the 44th Parliament: Human rights scrutiny report, 13 May
2015, pp 50–52.