Labor continues to prevent scrutiny of corruption in construction, and has scrapped the tough cop on the beat experts are calling for. Master Builders Australia has delivered another damning warning about the corruption, criminality and intimidation infecting Australia’s construction industry, exposing the Albanese Labor Government’s failure to deliver lasting reform. In its Built to Last report, Master Builders Australia has called for a powerful national construction regulator, stronger laws to keep corrupt officials out of the industry and greater protections for whistleblowers. Sadly, under Labor we have seen the dismantling of the Australian Building and Construction Commission and the Registered Organisations Commission. Despite Commissions investigating corruption in two of Australia\u2019s states, billions of taxpayer dollars being misused through corruption and organised crime, Labor and the Greens won\u2019t even vote for the Senate to have an inquiry. Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations Senator Jane Hume said the report reinforced the Coalition’s longstanding commitment to restore a strong cop on the beat in the construction industry and to push for the Senate to use its powers to inquire into the sector. “Australians deserve construction sites governed by the rule of law, not the law of the jungle.” “Master Builders has made it abundantly clear that corruption in construction is costing Australians and it has to stop. Any government who cares about fighting this corruption should listen to her warning and act today. “Labor\u2019s first instinct was to abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission. Now, four years later, the industry is telling them we desperately need a specialist regulator with stronger powers. \u201cAnd Labor have not only dismantled the tools that Master Builders is calling for, they have repeatedly voted against any inquiry into the corruption in the sector – despite the evidence of billions of dollars of waste, violence and extortion. “Labor should own up to its stuff up and join the Liberals and Nationals in reintroducing a stronger ABCC, scrapping the incentives for union control over Commonwealth procurement, and voting for a Senate inquiry into corruption in construction.” “Australians should ask themselves: if Labor genuinely wants to stamp out corruption, why is it so determined to prevent the Parliament from investigating it? Why won\u2019t it implement the recommendations of experts in construction to get rid of corruption? And why won\u2019t Labor commit to removing the incentives that experts have said led to the corruption in the first place?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Labor continues to prevent scrutiny of corruption in construction, and has scrapped the tough cop on the beat experts are calling for. Master Builders Australia has delivered another damning warning about the corruption, criminality and intimidation infecting Australia’s construction industry, exposing the Albanese Labor Government’s failure to deliver lasting reform. In its Built to Last … Continue reading “Australians deserve law and order in construction”<\/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-41532","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\/41532","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=41532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41533,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41532\/revisions\/41533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}