Email to the then Opposition Leader of 2 March 2007

Dear Mr Rudd MP,

We have campaigned for a petition for workers’ fundamental constitutional rights to the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and Victoria, and would like to get support from you.

We seek support from you because we think the petitions for workers’ fundamental constitutional rights in the workplace are important for the workers, who are your constituents.

Australian workers can be lawfully terminated when they refuse to carry on or complain about their bosses' unlawful instructions and activities, which may harm the workers, their mates and the society, if the workers have not filed complaints to 'a Court or Tribunal' before they are terminated, in accordance with the Federal Courts' Judgments backed up by the High Court in relation to Hilda's case.

Furthermore, we have asked many solicitors whether a court can directly deal with workers’ complaints about their bosses’ unlawful instructions and activities before they are dismissed, but no solicitor has told us that a court can do so. Therefore, Australian workers have no legal right to uphold and obey the laws in the workplaces at all in accordance with that case law made by the Full Federal Court in the Judgment of Hilda’s case.

Implicitly, workers’ fundamental constitutional rights in the workplace are important for workers. If you believe that workers’ fundamental constitutional rights in workplaces are of public importance, and that we should not leave the case law made by the Full Federal Court in the Judgments of Hilda’s case harming both the workers and the society, please support the petitions.

The petitions have been proudly supported by many people including Ms Sharan Burrow (ACTU), Father Bruce Duncan (Redemptorist Priest) and many organizations.

Leaflet of the petition and the petition are attached.

This matter was brought to your attention in September last year. You declared that you had not got the resource to respond to it, and advised me that we should contact Ms Nicola Roxon MP directly even though you might have known that we had done so. Ms Roxon MP could not do anything more than endorse the petition.

Recently a Labor MP urged me to raise this matter to you, the Leader of the Opposition.

Note: Mr Rudd MP failed to respond to this email.