Unless the unions challenge Dyson Heydon’s ruling that he does not suffer from apprehended bias they are piling criminality on criminality.

In a statement yesterday ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said the Trade Union Royal Commission is “terminally tarnished”.

It is a crime to try to bring a Royal Commission into disrepute. Unless Oliver and his mates take Heydon’s ruling to the Federal Court and win, they have no option but to accept the Commissioner’s ruling.

Australia is a country where we believe in the rule of law. There is a legal way to challenge royal commissions, and there is an unlawful way.

Likewise the Federal ALP must withdraw from its intention to move a motion in the Senate that if passed would call on Governor-General Peter Cosgrove to sack the royal commissioner.

The behaviour we are seeing from the federal Labor party and the unions is truly shameful. The Trade Union Royal Commission has uncovered multiple examples of criminality by unions, particularly the CFMEU.

Decent organisations would be moving themselves to clean up this sort of filth. That these organisations aren’t is condemnation enough. That they are trying to destroy the reputation of the organisation that is, is beyond belief.

Australia faces threats from without and within.

In this context the external security threat would seem slim compared to the threat from within.

We used to wonder how criminal classes grabbed hold of whole countries like Argentina and Chile, or Russia. We have a criminal class trying to do exactly the same thing in Australia, and they are up in the polls.

If you have been watching the other royal commission, the one into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and wondered how institutions could become so corrupted, you are seeing another example before your eyes.

The criminals thrive and prosper because they are supported by their peers for social reasons, or because it is very hard to look someone in the eye who you like, or who is your boss, and tell them that what they are doing is a crime.

But it has to be done.

In the end that might even  mean having to walk into a polling booth, holding your nose, and voting for Tony Abbott, because the polling booth might be the only way of telling them decisively enough.

Not only are the unions tainted with criminality, but in challenging Dyson’s impartiality they have wedged themselves. There is no way that a federal court would find in their favour.

It is about time they did the decent thing, pulled back, and punished the wrongdoers themselves. Otherwise they must be punished themselves.