Given the money flows between the union, criminals, building companies and the Labor Party, cleaning out this poison must surely require action by federal or state corruption bodies.
The Australian Financial Review’s Building Bad joint investigation with The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes has laid bare the open secret of criminal enterprises conducted under the recidivist law-breaking CFMEU.
The renegade construction union’s militant class-warfare rhetoric, pitting workers’ solidarity against the bosses, is not only cover for its long rap sheet of coercion and intimidation. As revealed on Tuesday, two years ago, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and now-Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan were sent detailed evidence that the CFMEU’s bully boys were issuing threats of extreme violence and black banning of non-preferred subcontractors from federally funded major projects.
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