Thread by @JacquiLambie

I’ve sat eyeball to eyeball with John Setka and asked him what he’d prefer – the government's IR laws, or his leadership. Because if he can live with these laws, then so can I. smh.com.au/politics/feder…

John Setka is doing more harm to the union movement than any law could do. If you want an electable ALP you should want him gone. If you want a strong union movement you should want him gone. Members, leaders, politicians want him gone.

So if one union official can overrule everybody else and fail to put the interests of the movement above his own, and nobody can stop him, then we need laws to compel him to leave. He's a billboard for the problem.

If he stays, the union movement is weakened. The leadership is weakened. The political arm is weakened. If you want strong unions, a strong ALP, strong public support, he can't stay. I can't stand aside and let that happen.

If he takes the view that he'd rather live in a world where these laws are on the books than a world where his leadership is over, then that's a world we will wake up in.