The Ensuring Integrity Bill designed to deregister lawbreaking unions and union officials remains frustratingly short of the one additional crossbench vote needed to pass the Senate. Red herrings continue to impede its progress into law.

The bill is not about John Setka, regardless of his deserved status as Australia’s poster boy for unrepentant union thuggery. Nor is it about drawing false moral equivalence with so-called "wage theft". It is about the principle of fairness.