If you want to know why it is so hard to break the hoodoo of the immigration economy, look no further than today’s CFMEU rubbish:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan were separately sent detailed evidence in 2022 that CFMEU officials were threatening extreme violence and unlawfully black-banning non-union-preferred firms from state and federally funded projects.
A letter from the directors of an Indigenous labour-hire firm, which was emailed to Allan in April 2022 when she was Victorian deputy premier, details serious threats of extreme violence, intimidation and unlawful union black bans on the federal and state-funded Monash Freeway upgrade project run by major contractor CPB.
This casts a black cloud over every infrastructure project in VIC, the epicentre of the failing immigration economy model.
As the wild corruption suggests, the model has nothing whatsoever to do with the merits of high immigration as a growth driver.
Rather, it makes it entirely plain that the purpose of the model is to pay off sectional labour and capital interests.
Corruption and criminality in the CFMEU didn’t start during the time of John Setka’s reign. The 1986 deregistration of Norm Gallagher’s Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) is probably the starting point. They were deregistered by the Hawke government because of their industrial recklessness, thuggery and corruption.
…Between 1993 and 2000, the former BLF forces gradually strengthened their position in the Victorian branch and didn’t hide the fact they aimed to take over the federal office and grab control of the whole union. In 2000 they made their move, and a series of ugly events saw gangsters, corruption, bitter internal fighting and the Cole royal commission into the building industry.
Between 2000 and 2010, the Victorian branch didn’t have the numbers to take control. The NSW, Queensland, ACT and Tasmanian branches stood together and represented the biggest faction. A new Queensland CFMEU leader took office around 2008 and started voting with the Victorians. This represented a serious change in the direction and culture of the CFMEU construction division.
…Shortly thereafter there were leadership changes in the NSW branch, which then became embroiled in ugly allegations of corruption. Gangsters started to circle.
All of them seek to perpetuate and get their slice of the corrupt immigration growth model.
This is one of the sources of Labor’s commitment to the immigration model. It placates the CFMEU and its desire to enrich itself at everybody else’s expense.
Mass immigration means endless high-cost construction projects for its members, as well as investment opportunities for its superannuation offshoots.
On the LNP side of politics, there is a matching group of suit-wearing gangsters that package up rent-seeking “privatised” solutions for crush-loaded infrastructure that are little more than mandated private tax impositions upon households.
The entire immigration growth model is a parasite designed to enrich the few and impoverish the many.
