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

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• Gloria@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  List of CEOs going to prison for contempt in the last 30 years:

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  • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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• Tau@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like inflation has rather diminished the impact of the monetary side of a contempt finding - $5k just doesn’t have the same impact as six months in prison anymore. It’s like how you see the occasional old sign in lifts warning that smoking can be punished by a (the presumably initially impactful) fine of up to $20…

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• wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Silly grandstanding and empty threats from the greens. If you are serious about the supermarket duopoly then work with labour to force them to divest. Another gab fest senate inquiry not going to do jack shit.

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