CFMEU clean-up not ‘attack’ on workers
A bid to clean up the embattled CFMEU is not “an attack on construction workers”, the minister spearheading the efforts says.
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A bid to clean up the embattled CFMEU is not “an attack on construction workers”, the minister spearheading the efforts says.
As the federal government tries to force the disgraced CFMEU into administration, Geelong-based senator Sarah Henderson has again taken aim at Libby Coker over the union’s support of her.
The government is hoping to have a better week in the Senate as it aims to push through key bills.
The government is hoping to have a better week in the Senate as it aims to push through key bills.
EMMA Walters, the wife of CFMEU chief John Setka, has slammed Premier Daniel Andrews over his treatment of former emergency services minister Jane Garrett.
BLACKMAIL charges against construction bosses John Setka and Shaun Reardon have been sensationally withdrawn in the middle of their preliminary hearing to see if they were to face trial.
A BORAL executive allegedly blackmailed while having a coffee with construction union bosses has described the meeting as “pleasant”.
A BORAL executive at the centre of a blackmail scandal has unwittingly risked incriminating himself in court after admitting he destroyed notes he took at a supposedly “off-the-record” meeting with CFMEU bosses John Setka and Shaun Reardon.
A ‘PROPAGANDA’ video that portrayed Grocon as an organisation employing bikies to act as safety officers on building sites has aired in the preliminary hearing over blackmail charges against two union heavyweights.
AMID reports that ice has become a growing problem on building sites, the CFMEU is funding the treatment of members battling drug addictions at luxury overseas rehab centres.
WORK being done by a man fatally crushed during construction of the Royal Adelaide Hospital could have been safely completed three different ways, a union boss says.
UNION slush funds and Labor-aligned campaign groups have been given a secret exemption from Bill Shorten’s plans to axe investment income cash refunds.
ANNASTASIA Palaszczuk has defended the right of teachers to display the Eureka flag in solidarity with the militant construction union.
THE CFMEU and several of its officials have been fined more than $800,000 over illegal stoppages at Brisbane construction sites, with a judge describing the actions of some as “deliberate, flagrant and systematic”.
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