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Labor must call an inquiry to permanently clean up the CFMEU
Amid the seeming powerlessness of anti-corruption bodies and the traditional reluctance of the police to investigate industrial relations matters, the call for a royal commission appears justified.
The Labor Party’s inadequate response to the Building Bad investigation that revealed organised crime infiltration of the law-breaking CFMEU has become a farce in Victoria.
As The Australian Financial Review’s workplace correspondent and Building Bad series co-author David Marin-Guzman revealed on Friday, the independent review of the Victorian construction industry announced by Labor Premier Jacinta Allan hadn’t even set up an email point of contact for participants in the building game to lodge allegations of criminal or unlawful conduct. When an email was hastily added to the inquiry website after the Financial Review asked questions, messages sent to the address bounced back.
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