Businesses who engage in serious misconduct or abuse of trust could soon be barred from being awarded state government contracts.
Despite the scandal-plagued union being suspended from the ALP,party insiders worry they are still trying to influence factional negotiations and membership recruitment.
Dean Martin,a former Rebels bikie president who was once in a relationship with ex-Greens senator Lidia Thorpe,has been released from immigration detention.
Police will have power to charge bikies and organised crime members who enter government worksites,while anti-association controls will be beefed up.
Greens firebrand Max Chandler-Mather infuriated the government by backing the union’s nationwide protests.
A sea of protesters marched through central Melbourne,expressed their disgust for federal Labor’s move to put the CFMEU into administration.
It’s not Anthony Albanese or Sally McManus who have brought the union to this crisis,it’s the previous leadership and their self-interest.
Michael Ravbar says the union faces “the biggest fight we’ve ever had” amid nationwide protests against the construction arm’s takeover.
The former secretary of the NSW CFMEU began his day with a court mention for bribery charges,and was a hero by lunchtime.
Read our coverage of the CFMEU rallies across the country on Tuesday,August 27.
Thousands of members of the scandal-plagued CFMEU and other unions have gathered in Sydney’s CBD to protest against the Commonwealth’s takeover.