Anthony Albanese has the opportunity to follow the example of Bob Hawke , who knew a thing or two about trade unions and industrial relations, and move to deregister the Construction Division of the CFMEU , formerly the Building Workers Industrial Union .

The industrial anarchy and lawlessness of the union from at least 1990 have been demonstrated in reports of royal commissions conducted by myself published in 1992, by Terence Cole in 2003 and by Dyson Heydon in 2015, brought up to date by the investigation reported in these pages over the last week.