Greens reject access to trade union report

The Greens won't have a bar of conditions the Turnbull government has imposed on the minor party's access to a royal commission report into trade unions.

Federal Greens Member for Melbourne Adam Bandt

The Greens have rejected limited access to a royal commission report into trade unions. (AAP) Source: AAP

The Greens have knocked back a federal government offer to provide them and Labor with limited access to a controversial volume of the royal commission into trade union corruption.

"We won't be having a bar of the government's attempt to create two classes of members of parliament," Greens workplace relations spokesman Adam Bandt told reporters in Canberra.

The government already had agreed to provide four crossbench senators with an unedited version of the secret volume in a bid to convince them to support the re-establishment of a building and construction watchdog.


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