Andrew Quirk warned Anthony Albanese about the CFMEU’s suspected links to organised crime during a 2014 meeting in which the whistleblower also detailed fears following a spate of murders he believed were connected to the building industry.
The last-minute shelving of Labor’s environment bill averts another war on something that Anthony Albanese clearly doesn’t need.
Business warns that Tanya Plibersek’s threat of a climate trigger in new green laws would devastate the economy and kill projects industry-wide.
The Environment Minister has admitted Labor was considering a Greens’ demand for a climate trigger under its new environmental laws in a reversal of an original pledge that will further inflame the mining sector.
Having naively signed up to Labor’s agendas on all things woke, big business has been mugged by the reality that Labor’s political strategy was never going to align with their interests.
Mining giant BHP has defended its role in the Australian economy, claiming the amount of tax it paid last financial year was equal to half the entire annual funding of the public hospital system.
There aren’t too many sectors of the economy the Albanese government hasn’t now picked a fight with. But its notion of conflict resolution seems to be asking an opponent not to respond when it punches it in the face.
The nation’s peak mining lobby has issued a bullish warning, accusing Anthony Albanese of deliberately bringing conflict to every workplace in Australia and threatening the economy through arbitrary environmental decisions.
Less than $3bn of the Albanese government’s claimed $32bn housing plan has been disbursed for the direct construction of new homes, with no new dwellings understood to have yet been completed.
Many households may still be living in the hope that their standard of living crash is temporary. Once they realise it’s not, their attitude will change and the government may cop it.
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