Royal Commission report shows the jig's up for trade unions

By The Canberra Times
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:19pm, first published December 30 2015 - 6:56pm

If Dyson Heydon, whose entire career has been spent in academia and on the bench, is ignorant of the slang phrase "the jig's up", his final report as royal commissioner into trade union governance and corruption is the legal equivalent thereof. The six volumes are a compendium of wilful trade union misconduct and hard-core corruption made all the more damning, he says, for the fact that they are "widespread" and "deep-seated". Not only that, but "a huge amount of the testimony given in hearings [was] false to the knowledge of the witnesses".

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