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CFMEU’s industrial power has corrupted
The scale of the systemic wrongdoing that has been uncovered demands a fuller judicial inquiry that must also probe the institutional enablers of CFMEU’s crimes in Australia’s industrial relations system.
The shocking infiltration of criminals into the CFMEU exposed by The Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes Building Bad investigation series should be no surprise when breaking the law has become a normalised part of the union’s business model.
The payoffs to officials and organised crime and racketeering are the appalling extension of the sub-criminal culture of CFMEU fear and intimidation, and a long rap sheet of court-ordered fines for unlawful conduct considered a cost of doing business.
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