Independent Senator for Tasmania Jacqui Lambie has called on the Liberal Government to properly explain why it hasn’t deregistered the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Electrical Union (CFMEU)
(Click below to see Abbot Government’s response to Senator Lambie’s question in Parliament.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StKFnJ4iuqQ
“Yesterday In parliament I asked Senator Abetz to explain why his party didn’t deregister a Union which the Liberals described as having members who:
• continue to ignore the law despite the imposition of penalties.
• are engaged in secretly stealing private information of its members, boycotts, cartels, blackmail, extortion and even death threats.
Unfortunately, Senator Abetz’s reply showed just how weak a stand on political and union corruption his government had taken.” said Senator Lambie.
“As I told the Parliament that evening in an adjournment speech – If the Abbot government was serious about tackling crime and corruption in the building and construction industry and lowering costs, they would have moved very quickly to deregister the CFMEU – and perhaps other unions.
Just as the Liberal – and then Labor Party combined in the 1980’s to finally deregister a similar Union – the Builders Labor’s Federation or BLF.
Instead the Abbot government has used the CFMEU’s obvious links to outlaw bikie gangs, stand-over merchants , hit men and criminals to justify the establishment of a Royal Commission – whose greater purpose is to target the Labor party of Australia – while it appears to ignore or actively cover up corruption and the effects of organized criminal activity within the Liberal party.” said Senator Lambie.
Rob Messenger
