Former CFMEU national president Jade Ingham said the union had been stolen from its members under “un-Australian” laws he would fight to overturn.
The fallout from our investigation into the powerful construction union began on Friday,when long-time union boss John Setka resigned,before the first story had even been published.
The militant unionist’s bid to oust former construction watchdog Stephen McBurney from his AFL job is backed in by his national CFMEU counterpart. But the ACTU chief refused to comment.
The underworld figure has long played a role in the building industry but rarely would people speak publicly about it,until now.
Victoria’s housing minister failed to boost consumer protections despite receiving advice about reducing the risks for home building customers eight months before one of the state’s largest home builders collapsed.
Lindsay Partridge,who runs the country’s largest brick manufacturer Brickworks,reckons the RBA waited too long to raise rates and that’s hurting the construction sector.
And cataloguing the donkey votes.
But even applied science can’t tackle a Wet Leg.
Labor’s divisive industrial relations bill passed the lower house despite a wall of vocal opposition,indicating the looming Senate fight next month.
A confidential staff survey of the building watchdog found it was racked by “contagious negative morale” and a “culture typified by active mistrust”.
Independent MP Allegra Spender has joined the criticism of the Albanese government’s industrial relations changes saying they are “the most far-reaching industrial relations reform since John Howard’s Work Choices”.