Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
2024-08-27 Daily Xml

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CFMEU

The Hon. C. BONAROS (14:51): Supplementary: given what the Leader of the Opposition has said today, does the Attorney acknowledge that in this government's own words there has been no evidence so far of any criminal activity in South Australia?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (14:51): I think that what many people saw—I think it was on 60 Minutes and in the related newspaper reporting—were images that were, quite frankly, not becoming of an organisation that seeks to represent workers in one of the most dangerous industries. Given that and given that the South Australian branch of the construction division of the CFMEU was being run out of Victoria, I think it is entirely appropriate that in Victoria and New South Wales and South Australia that division of that union has been put into administration.