Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash
Shadow Attorney-General
Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
Leader of the Opposition in the Senate
Senator for Western Australia
18 FEBRUARY 2025
PRIME MINISTER TOO WEAK TO INTERVENE IN RAIL STRIKE
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is again proving how weak he is by not intervening in the crippling Sydney rail strike.
Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Senator Michaelia Cash has again called on Mr Albanese to act to bring this strike to an end.
“This strike has been dragging on for months and is now crippling this nation’s largest and economically most important city and the Prime Minister stands by and does nothing,” Senator Cash said.
“The people of NSW have been held to ransom for far too long. The Albanese Government should have formally intervened months ago under section 431 of the Fair Work Act, but they just don’t want to upset their union mates,” she said.
“The Rail, Tram and Bus Union knows that Mr Albanese will do nothing to stop them hijacking vital public transport services. He needs their political support for the upcoming Federal election,” Senator Cash said.
“Mr Albanese could call his union mates today and tell them to end the strike, but he’s just too weak to do so,’’ she said.
“The sustained industrial action orchestrated by the RTBU is not just an inconvenience; it is a deliberate act of economic vandalism,’’ Senator Cash said.
“This disruption is hitting small businesses, choking productivity, and putting an already struggling NSW economy further into turmoil,” she said.
A Coalition Government under Peter Dutton would immediately intervene and stop this dispute.
Mr Albanese changed the Fair Work Act to give his union mates virtually unlimited power over Australian workplaces and the disruptive strike action on the Sydney rail network is a result of these changes.
ENDS
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