The former national president of the CFMEU Jade Ingham has announced a High Court challenge to the Labor government’s forced administration of the union’s construction and general arm.
The challenge was lodged in the High Court on Tuesday after the government appointed barrister Mark Irving KC as the union’s administrator amid bombshell allegations of corruption and thuggery.about the administrator including his minimum appointment period and reporting requirements in a bid to get it through the senate.
“These laws are unconstitutional, they’re undemocratic and they’re definitely un-Australian,” he told a press conference on Tuesday. Mr Ingham noted his legal challenge has received support from CFMEU-aligned Electrical Trade Union, which has withheld more than $1m in donations for Labor and redirected some of this money towards the legal challenge, alongside the firefighters union.
“They would have you believe it’s in response to a TV show a couple of weeks ago, a TV show that, quite frankly, some of us didn’t even know still existed, but a TV show that raised some allegations about a handful of people in a couple of states,” he said. Mr Ingham said he was surprised that Labor had taken this course of action and felt the union would be vindicated down the track.The former union boss compared the forced administration of the CFMEU with the Health Services Union East branch that had an administrator appointed in 2012.
Tradies and unionists across the nation rallied to protest the forced administration of the union last week. Picture: NewsWire / John Gass
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