In one of the strangest cabinet reshuffle decisions of the 21st century, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promoted the man who handed effective control of the construction sector in Australia to the CFMEU when he abolished the ABCC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This has led to disastrous consequences on our nation\u2019s building sites allowing criminality, bullying, corruption, intimidation and standover tactics to thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash said that outgoing Employment Minister Tony Burke leaves behind an unparalleled disaster in the Australian construction sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTony Burke was the best friend the CFMEU ever had. He abolished the ABCC, the organisation which held the CFMEU accountable, saving them millions of dollars in fines and allowing them to control the nation\u2019s construction sector,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMr Burke was then apparently surprised when the appalling allegations against the CFMEU came to light and he was forced to belatedly apply to put some of their divisions into administration,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Cash said a competent Prime Minister would have sacked Tony Burke, but Anthony Albanese has again showed his weakness by promoting him to look after our nation\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnthony Albanese has sent a very clear message – if you support his friends in the CFMEU, he will give you a nice promotion. By promoting Mr Burke, Mr Albanese has made it clear that he is happy for the CFMEU to continue to run the construction sector in Australia.\u201d Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Cash called on incoming Employment Minister Murray Watt to restore the ABCC and to immediately legislate to deregister the CFMEU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMurray Watt has a golden opportunity to emulate Bob Hawke, who abolished the Builders Labourer\u2019s Federation, and to immediately introduce legislation to deregister the CFMEU. Unfortunately, Mr Watt\u2019s previous record has been to enthusiastically support outgoing Minister Burke\u2019s agenda in the Senate, an agenda which gave control of Australia\u2019s construction sector to the CFMEU.\u201d Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In one of the strangest cabinet reshuffle decisions of the 21st century, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promoted the man who handed effective control of the construction sector in Australia to the CFMEU when he abolished the ABCC. This has led to disastrous consequences on our nation\u2019s building sites allowing criminality, bullying, corruption, intimidation and … Continue reading “PM promotes Burke for creating CFMEU distaster”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28122,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28121\/revisions\/28122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}