Opinion

Ensuring Integrity Bill is about criminalising advocacy, not fighting crime

By John Falzon
Updated November 18 2019 - 9:18pm, first published November 12 2019 - 3:30am

In all of the government's aggressive commentary on working people who choose to belong to unions, there is one fact that is consistently omitted. Unions are civil society organisations. Even the World Bank, that hotbed of militancy, happily acknowledges this truth: "Civil society ... refers to a wide array of organisations: community groups, non-governmental organisations, labour unions, Indigenous groups, charitable organisations, faith-based organisations, professional associations, and foundations."

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