r/LaborPartyofAustralia

Based on poll by DemosAU 27 May – 3 June 2026

Their history is loaded with pro one nation posts and pretending to be a Labor supporter when they clearly are not. They have spammed multiple Aussie subs with this shit for like 21 hours per days activity.

They are trying to manipulate Australians into believing there is grass roots support for Pauline and that one nation are a viable opposition whilst taking subtle jabs at Labor.

They hide their support for one nation by posting one nation stories and then commenting “wouldn’t it be scary if one nation got in, they are doing really well, us Labor supporters should watch out for how successful they are” type bullshit.

It’s likely they are part of the fake one nation engagement teams from Indonesia.

Other than the absolutely fantastic take - I love listening to Russell Crowes voice.

Imagine if the CFMEU were a big bank or a big consultancy, or if the systemic corruption and criminality that the construction union is accused of had occurred under the watch of a Liberal government. The Labor Party and its fellow travellers would be leading the calls for a full-blooded public inquiry to get to the bottom of the scandal.

Instead, two years after the joint The Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes Building Bad series exposed the scale of the CFMEU’s alleged misconduct and infiltration by organised crime and bikie gangs, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan continues to deflect or deny and refuse to take meaningful action to eradicate corrupt and criminal behaviour in the construction sector.

The CFMEU scandal hasn’t diminished the union’s clout. David Rowe

Allan’s latest brazen strategy for rejecting calls for a royal commission into union corruption in her state is to keep claiming that any evidence of alleged union wrongdoing should be referred to the Victorian police, who have the power to investigate.

Allan has previously described as “unfounded” the estimate by anti-corruption expert Geoffrey Watson that infrastructure project cost blowouts due to CFMEU corruption cost Victorian taxpayers $15 billion. She is now risibly resorting to the argument that it is inflation, “not corruption”, that has caused building costs to blow out over the past 12 years while Labor has been in power in Victoria.

Handballing the problem to the cops and blaming the CPI are convenient alibis for a compromised premier who, as infrastructure minister under Daniel Andrews, oversaw the $100 billion “Big Build” program which has now been shown to be rife with CFMEU rorts. Allan’s insistence that the government’s response has been appropriate is belied by the latest revelations of continuing union-related graft on major construction projects during her term as premier.

Fresh investigations by The Age and 60 Minutes on the weekend revealed that in May 2024, construction firms building Melbourne’s new Metro Tunnel rail project warned the government that being forced to use CFMEU-affiliated labour hire firms would cost taxpayers $200 million more than it should. It was also revealed that, until this year, subcontractors continued to make payments to firms and associates linked to underworld figure Mick Gatto to secure work on Big Build projects.

Shutting the gate long after it should have been bolted, Transport Infrastructure Minister Gabrielle Williams has ordered builders to disclose what industrial relations fixers they hire and announced that a mandatory register of approved consultants will be established. This belated move to kick organised crime off the Big Build underlines how unserious the Allan government has been about cleaning up the construction union.

That inaction is part of wider institutional malaise in Victoria, which includes the failure of the state’s toothless anti-corruption body to hold the CFMEU to account. Meanwhile, the inaugural federal administrator appointed to oversee the union’s yet-to-be-completed restructure resigned in April, following a gruelling 20-month tenure that included receiving death threats. His replacement, Michael Crosby, a former union executive and NSW union official, must now complete the onerous reform process to finally root out corrupt elements.

It’s astonishing, therefore, that the Albanese government has nevertheless seen fit to get into bed with both the Allan government and the CFMEU by committing $6 billion of federal taxpayers’ money to the first stage of the mega $34.5 billion Melbourne Suburban Rail Loop project.

That failure to treat union corruption seriously is further underscored by the new procurement laws rushed through the national parliament on Tuesday, which will prevent contractors and subcontractors without union-negotiated agreements from working on federally funded projects.

The Albanese government is essentially doubling down on the pro-union regulatory chokehold that already enables corruption in the construction sector.

Under the registered unions provision of the Fair Work Act, the CFMEU is granted an effective monopoly over the labour supply on building sites. That stranglehold is what enables crooks and thugs to extort contractors and subcontractors, at the barrel end of threats of industrial action or being barred from projects, under the union’s banner.

Federal and Victorian Labor’s lack of vigilance about ensuring basic standards of probity and integrity in the construction sector adds to the case for a royal commission. Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson promises to call one if the Liberal Party wins November’s state election, with polling suggesting that the failure to tackle CFMEU corruption is a major factor (along with the dire state of Victoria’s economy) that has turned voters off Allan and against granting Labor another term in office.

A royal commission will likely be needed to get to the bottom of the CFMEU rot. Only an inquiry with the power to compel witnesses can break the culture of silence and omerta enforced by the construction unions’ long rap sheet of thuggery and intimidation.

But a royal commission is also the right forum to examine the structural enablers of union corruption in the industrial relations system, which now includes the Albanese government’s union-friendly procurement policy.