The government’s light-touch response to the allegations swirling around the CFMEU risks emboldening Labor’s critics.
With Australia’s Federal election looming over the horizon and the battleground issue being the cost of living crisis, the Albanese government’s decision to tread softly around the CFMEU exposes it to criticism that its actions don’t match its rhetoric on fighting inflation.
And yes, while some of the elevated construction costs can be rightly placed at the feet of the construction union allegedly extorting money from building companies, the massive increase in the cost of materials has been a bigger driver of higher post-COVID construction costs. Master Builders Australia has reportedly pointed out there’s a 30 per cent premium on CFMEU sites, and it doesn’t just contain itself to those sites. It says that if you’re paying $200,000 a year to a stop-and-go person on a CFMEU site, the same sort of salary is being doled out at projects that are non-CFMEU sites.
Meanwhile, we have dozens and dozens of territory, state and federal inquiries afoot right now, covering everything from telco network outages to aircraft noise.
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