Reference :- Our government told us that the banks haven't been " persistently breaking the law" as our unions do .

Reference :-  The government , in it's desperate , and so far failed , bid to bring in their  new  union bashing bill informs us that rogue unions have been breaking the law two to three times every week.
 However , the banks , they tell us , don't need to face any " bank bashing " legislation since they have not " persistently " broken the law.

Well , to plagiarise  the late author , Douglas Adams, this must be some new usage of the word " persistently " with which we are not familiar .   If we set aside the findings of the banking royal commission , and just consider Westpac's  latest transgressions , there appear to have been about 23 million of them .   How does that compare with two to three per week ? 

  Fortunately my son , Ken junior has a phone app , whatever that is , which can do simple mathematical calculations .  He just ran the numbers , and it turns out that the unions would have to continue breaking the law at that rate for the next 192,000 years to merely catch up with Westpac .  I think that illustrates the need to slap most of those so called "bashing "  laws on to the banks , not the unions . And with great haste . 

 Also ,  I suggest you discourage the use of the term "bashing " .  It sounds like everybody  hates the unions and wants to cripple them , but without them we probably wouldn't have superannuation or medicare , among many other things .  Have you noticed how wages have remained stagnant since union membership fell to under 20% of the workforce ?   And now the economy has stalled because nobody can afford to buy anything .   (  Except , of course , the CEOs who are making out like bandits . ) 

 That calculator app on Ken junior's phone sure works a treat , maybe Mr Angus Taylor , current minister in disgrace , should run one to stop him getting his figures wrong.   Ken junior says the telephone company is promoting a "two for the price one " deal for apps at the moment , so for no extra fee he might also be able to install one that tells him when his arse is on fire .   

 Your comrade , Ken