The Australian Building and Construction Commission's powers will be stripped back within days, in a federal government move to dump what it describes as 'ridiculous' rules.
The federal construction watchdog's powers will be stripped back to the "bare legal minimum" within days, in a federal government move to dump what it describes as "ridiculous" rules.He said the government still planned to dump the oversight body this year
Labor went to the last election vowing to abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission altogether, arguing it had been wasteful in pursuing cases against unions. "As of Tuesday, the ABCC in its powers will be pulled back to the bare legal minimum," he told ABC's Insiders. "We will no longer be spending taxpayers' money determining what sticker someone's allowed to put on their helmet, whether or not a safety sign has to be pulled down because it's got a union logo in the bottom corner, or what flag might be flying at a building site.
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