A rise in female bosses like Ged Keaney and Caterina Cinnani means the face of the union movement now looks a lot more like Australia than the front benchWell,the trade union royal commission (Turc) has wound up at a cost of at least $40m to the taxpayer, the referral to police of its own star witness Kathy Jackson, and the exoneration of both Julia Gillard and Bill Shorten from any wrongdoing and the public questioning of the impartiality of its commissioner,Dyson Heydon, after it was revealed he had agreed to headline a Liberal party fundraiser, and mid-commission. There may be some scratching their heads as to why the Liberal government invested so much time and money for a handful of criminal referrals so paltry they were announced in the media deadzone between Christmas and recent Year. This is to underestimate the propaganda value to the Liberals every election cycle of invoking the spectre of their opposition’s association with union thugs”. The image is always male and ever monstrous,with carefully evinced suggestions of standover tactics and corrupt criminality.
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Source: theguardian.com