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NSW Building Regulator resignation reveals double standards
The resignation letter of former NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler, tabled in the NSW Parliament last week, raises serious questions about relationships between the LNP and property developers in the state. Chandler’s resignation also reveals the double...
Master Builders’ ABCC report exposed as worthless
A report commissioned by the Master Builders and released during the election campaign warning of extraordinary economic impacts of abolishing the ABCC has been exposed as “empirically empty and useless” in a scathing analysis by respected economist, Dr Phillip Toner....
CFMEU condemns Dutton’s attacks
The CFMEU condemns Peter Dutton’s shrill and hysterical attacks on the union and his ongoing vilification of Australian construction workers. Dutton deliberately conflates breaches of civil law with criminality. His view of the law seems to be based on that of a...
CFMEU welcomes end of Construction Code
The CFMEU welcomes the decision of the Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke to rescind the Liberal Party’s Construction Code. The Code was the last of a series of anti-union policies enacted by successive Liberal Governments. The Code prevented Construction unions...