IR Omnibus Bill goes to the Senate.

Unless something unexpected happens, the IR Omnibus Bill should be discussed in the Senate this week. This is the official ACTU ad explaining why the Bill should be stopped. 

There are good reasons to expect the bill will not be passed, at least in its current form (see here) and, indeed, the crossbench has already proposed a number of amendments to the bill.

This optimism, however, must be qualified. Amendments are a double-edged sword: parliamentarians frequently trade their vote for some concession for their constituencies -- so-called "horse trading". That way they get the bill passed, while pretending that they did their best to defeat it (only succeeding in improving it).

Ideally, therefore, the bill should be defeated outright. Readers can also send the senators an email.