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Commencement
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Members
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Bills
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Parliament House Matters
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Petitions
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Parliamentary Procedure
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Ministerial Statement
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Parliamentary Committees
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Parliamentary Procedure
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Question Time
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Ministerial Statement
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Grievance Debate
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Private Members' Statements
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Bills
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Answers to Questions
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Estimates Replies
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CFMEU
The Hon. V.A. TARZIA (Hartley—Leader of the Opposition) (14:41): My question is to the Premier. Has the Department for Infrastructure and Transport conducted a review into the CFMEU and, if so, what was the outcome of that review? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.
Leave granted.
The Hon. V.A. TARZIA:The Advertiser reported on 1 August that the Department for Infrastructure and Transport are currently reviewing all contracts that include enterprise bargaining agreements signed by the CFMEU and will report back with any findings of concern.
The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Minister for Energy and Mining) (14:41): Yes, we have conducted a review. We all saw the media. We all saw the accusations made about the CFMEU and I've got to say that the government, to a person, was alarmed and we immediately instigated a review. That review is looking into links to organised crime, any contracts that were signed or any enterprise agreements with current contractors that may give preferential treatment to other subcontractors that may have links to the aspects of the CFMEU that were mentioned in the media that could have nefarious links.
To date, the department has not found any links to organised crime in any of our contracts and we have not found any concerns. We are cooperating with South Australia Police to make sure, but it is fair to say that the Albanese government's swift action to put the CFMEU into administration is a good day. It is a good day for South Australia, it is a good day for workers because it is important in the construction industry. These workers work in a dangerous field and they need to have a union that is focused on their safety, their health, their wages, their conditions, not about commercialising their influence for their own pockets or their own organised criminal activity.
We are pleased that it has taken a Labor government to put the CFMEU into administration while apparently under previous governments there was no action taken on the CFMEU and all this illegality only started happening when Labor happened to come into office.