The media has again exposed how the notorious CFMEU continues to have a stranglehold on our building industry.
This affects all Australians. It adds substantially to the cost of building homes and taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects.
Yet Labor is simply too weak and too compromised to fix this.
Since Mr Albanese has been Leader, Labor has received almost $7 million from the notorious CFMEU.
Remarkably, the CFMEU’s Victorian leader still sits on the National Executive of the Labor Party.
One of the Labor Government’s first acts in Government was to let the CFMEU off its leash by abolishing the building watchdog.
This was despite the fact the CFMEU had been fined by courts for over 1,600 law breaches, between 2016 and 2023.
Last year, media reports revealed the CFMEU had been infiltrated by bikies and underworld figures.
The Opposition called on the Government to deregister the CFMEU. Instead, they put the CFMEU into “administration”.
15 months later, one of the very people hired to stamp out bribes and corruption has been sacked over allegations of bribes and corruption.
And the media reports that CFMEU officials are still meeting with John Setka and Mick Gatto.
This week, the Government wouldn’t even agree to an inquiry into their administration of the CFMEU.
Enough is enough. We need to clean up our construction industry.
Only the Coalition can be trusted to do this.
