Labor is threatening the Greens with a social media offensive in marginal seats that paints MPs as puppets of disgraced CFMEU boss John Setka unless its bill is passed.
Labor will turn on the Greens and paint them as puppets of disgraced former CFMEU boss John Setka through a social media offensive in marginal seats if the minor party keeps blocking new laws that would force the union into administration.
“Adam Bandt and the Greens have made the calculated choice to choose their own political benefit over weeding out this behaviour,” Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt said in comments to this masthead. Labor has historically accepted donations from the CFMEU but its federal executive has banned donations from the Victorian branch. Bandt has not said if his party would do the same but has noted the Greens have not received a donation from the union since 2013.which revealed the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union had been infiltrated by bikies and organised crime, triggering the resignation of Setka, a former Victoria division leader of the union.
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