Comment on Greens senator threatens Woolworths CEO with six months in prison for contempt of Senate

Gloria@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not a complete list:

  • Andrew Ferguson, Bight Abalone
  • Matthew Perrin, Billabong
  • Gavin Pollock, Shire of Ravensthorpe
  • Daniel Tartak, Bingo Industries (skip bins) *
  • Emmanuel Roussakis, Aussie Skips *

  * These two were convicted together for price fixing

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  • Gloria@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As I said: not for contempt. Nobody who can afford a good lawyer will ever go to prison for contempt. Also: That is a depressing short list for 20 years. As if not more CEO deserved to go to prison for wage theft and other things.

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    • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just pasted the names and companies from the first few Google hits. There were plenty more hits, but I wasn’t going to read them all.

      I actually couldn’t find anyone who had ever been imprisoned for contempt of senate. The charge exists, and a prison term is possible, but I don’t know that it has ever actually happened. It comes over as an hollow threat.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, establishing that there’s a problem with CEOs not going to gaol for contempt of Senate would first require establishing that CEOs are committing contempt of Senate, at the very least to a standard of “a reasonable concern exists”.

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