The CFMEU administrator has declared a High Court ruling throwing out a challenge to its existence by ousted elements of the union ends six months of uncertainty and paves the way for systemic reform of the construction industry and finally banishing bad actors from it.
The High Court on Wednesday unanimously dismissed all grounds of the challenge, including that the administration laws breached the separation of powers and the implied freedom of political communication, and amounted to taking union property without just terms compensation.
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