Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing growing calls for a royal commission into the CFMEU, with the Business Council of Australia warning an administrator is “wholly inadequate” to investigate the union’s misconduct.
Former judge and the recently departed commissioner of Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog, Robert Redlich, also warned that watchdogs were limited in their powers and federal and state Labor governments must do more to clean up CFMEU corruption.
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