A 62-year-old man fell on Friday morning while climbing up a crane ladder.
Police charged Emma Walters after searching her house on Wednesday and seizing a mobile phone.
State and territory ministers will discuss banning the import of engineered stone next week as unions say it must happen as soon as possible.
The manufacturing division applied to the Fair Work Commission last year to demerge from the Construction,Forestry,Maritime,Mining and Energy Union after years of acrimony with the construction arm.
Prominent former lawyer Emma Walters alleges police failed to protect her safety after she made multiple family violence claims against the CFMEU union leader.
Key crossbench senators say the federal government must end the native timber industry to meet Australia’s commitment to a new international deal to protect nature.
Introducing legislation that ends employers’ ability to take out insurance against workers’ deaths,Tony Burke said it was unacceptable that Australians faced the hazard of the potentially fatal lung disease in 2022.
The CFMMEU has announced it will ban the use of engineered stone if the federal government fails to do so by 2024,in “industrial action not seen since building and construction unions banned asbestos”.
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”.
Controversial construction union head John Setka has been accused of using Richmond footballer Dustin Martin as part of a bid to pressure his estranged wife Emma Walters,who has fled the family home