Right Now 26/10/2017 Court Action over Raids, Michaelia Cash, ABC Raided and The Fate of Catalonia
Channel: The Unshackled
Date: 2017-10-26

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Stay up to date with our twitter: https://bit.ly/2WSbbgh The aftermath of Australian Federal Police raiding the offices of the Australian Workers’ Union on behalf of the Registered Organisations Commission as part of an investigation into an $100,000 AWU donation to GetUp in 2006 when Bill Shorten was its National Secretary has dominated federal politics over the past day. The AWU and its law firm Maurice Blackburn have filed an application with the federal court to have the commission investigation declared invalid or to obtain an injunction prohibiting the AFP from executing the search warrants any further. Given that this whole investigation was undertaken at the behest of Employment Minister Michaelia Cash it is not a good look for the Government to be using its resources to persecute its political enemies.

Given that media cameras were able to capture the AWU raids as they occurred it was widely speculated that the media must have been tipped off by Employment Minister Michaelia Cash or her office. During Question Time Malcolm Turnbull stated this was not true and Michaelia Cash told a Senate Estimates hearing five times that her office did not tip off the media. However during the evening she claimed after questioning her staff again a media advisor had passed on information about the raid to the media and had now resigned. Michaelia Cash either has either been sloppy or dishonest and has clearly mislead the Senate and I can hardly see how she can survive as a Cabinet Minister
Embarrassment 

It would appear that our police forces are preoccupied with political motivated investigations than actually catching real criminals. Queensland Police raided the offices of ABC Brisbane as part of investigation into cabinet leaks which date back to 2012 when Campbell Newman was Premier. The leaks contained information proposed budget cuts and coal seam gas oversight. This raid was at the behest of Cabinet Secretary Leighton Craig, who claims the documents could have been "improperly accessed". Whether that is true or not is beside the point, Cabinet leaks are commonplace in Australia and it is never a good look in a free and open democracy for the police to be raiding a media organisation.

The Spanish Government is poised to invoke Article 155 of that nation’s constitution which would revoke the autonomy of Catalonia following its independence referendum and its threat to unilaterally declare independence. It is tragedy that the Spanish Government is going down this path and not respecting the wishes of Catalan people. A dangerous showdown between the Spanish and Catalan government is still possible as Spain has made it clear it will not accept an independent Catalonia under any circumstance.

News Links:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/industrial-relations/michaelia-cash-says-tipoff-claim-over-awu-raids-a-labor-deflection/news-story/1ad4d407d781b65261906f04d45be686
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-25/cash-staffer-resigns-over-awu-raids/9086214
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/24/new-zealand-kingmaker-winston-peters-deputy-prime-minister-foreign
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/catalan-secessionists-mull-snap-election/news-story/959fcb024c795cebbaa581dd4b16f038

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