The controversial union leader rejected Senator Patrick's and Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie's allegation the comments amounted to "threats" aimed at influencing their votes,
The motion also calls for the committee to investigate "whether there has been any attempt to improperly influence any senator in their conduct ... by intimidation, force or threat of any kind". "Rather, Mr Setka foreshadowed members of his organisation crossing paths with myself and Senator [Stirling] Griff at future time and engaging in abuse," he said.He said he had been the "uncomfortable and concerned witness to two CFMEU members accosting former senator Nick Xenophon at Perth airport lounge at about the same time the ABCC and ROC legislation was being voted on" in 2016.
Dana_Adele LOzl. The right is pitiful and grasping at straws.
Dana_Adele Honestly that is pathetic. That sort of thing has so often been said - what sort of absurd restrictions on discourse are we trying to impose
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