Dutton needs to come clean on his IR agenda

Media Release - February 26, 2025

Australian Unions are connecting the dots between Peter Dutton’s hidden $30 million property portfolio and his hidden industrial relations policy.

While public scrutiny rightly turns to Coalition Leader, Peter Dutton’s questionable bank share trading and clandestine property dealings, Australian Unions are calling again on the Coalition to unveil its industrial relations policy.

If working people can’t trust Peter Dutton to be transparent about his extensive property holdings, how can they trust him to protect their wages and rights at work.

Quotes attributable to ACTU Secretary, Sally McManus:

“Working peoples’ biggest concern is not how much money Peter Dutton made from problematic share deals or his portfolio of hidden houses.

“What matters is why Peter Dutton is hiding his workplace policy agenda for Australian workers.

“He needs to come clean on how much of the HR Nicholls society agenda he will adopt to get rid of awards and scrap the independent umpire, the Fair Work Commission.

“Peter Dutton and his Coalition team members have already said they will roll back protections for casuals and get rid of the Right to Disconnect, which is reducing rates of unpaid overtime.

“He wants to scrap the Same Job Same Pay laws that are stopping labour hire workers from being exploited and under-paid and he will remove new protections for truckies and gig workers.

“What concerns us is Peter Dutton’s constant efforts to make sure no workers’ family can feel secure under a Coalition government.”

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