Nearly sixteen months after Dyson Heydon handed down his final report following the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption, Malcolm Turnbull and Michaelia Cash have announced action on one of its key recommendations – banning corrupting benefits between trade unions and business.

According to Heydon, these secret payments and kickbacks are proffered for one of two equally unscrupulous purposes – assuaging threats of industrial chaos and securing favours from officials that undermine the level-playing field of an open competitive market.