don't disagree, but the RC was political. Its the first thing the libs do everytime they get into power, flick the switch on a union corruption RC. Try getting a RC into anything that actually needs one, you have to battle away for years and even then you're struggling to get one up. Big business corruption is OK, union corruption isn't. Or to put it another way, left wing corruption is a horrendous scourge, right wing corruption is just an uncomfortable reality of doing business.
The ALP do have a systemic problem with union links, 30-odd % in the general population but 70-odd % in the ALP. Until they can somehow remedy that, the Australian political system will struggle. People want to elect progressive parties, nobody really wants to vote Liberal, unless you're rich or dumb, but the ALP's wishy washy ineptitude means they get a geurnsey. The ALP is prima facie a progressive party, but they can't actually be a true, responsive progressive party until they can reduce the union influence. easier said than done though, try and talk some blokes into that, 'excuse me fellas, we'd like you to vote yourselves a reduced amount of power'. yeah right.
Time after time the ALP has inquiries into what their problems are, time after time the findings say, 'too much union influence, needs to be halved'. time after time, nothing happens.
