CFMEU action is a tale of two very different Labor governments

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Call it a tale of two cities, or rather of two state Labor governments. The Minns government has utterly shown up Victorian Labor in its reaction to a mega-rorting scandal on an equally mega infrastructure project.

Some brief history first. As part of this masthead’s Building Bad series exposing corruption, organised crime and worker exploitation in Australia’s building industry, we published revelations that international construction giant Webuild was accused of covering up a worker exploitation scandal and concealing evidence of unlawful conduct on its Sydney airport train project.

While the alleged wrongdoing was being committed by Webuild’s sub-contractors, the giant Italian firm’s primary sin was not doing enough to detect it and clean it up.

In response, the NSW government commissioned top silk Max Kimber, SC, to examine both the sub-contractors’ alleged wrongdoing and associated claims of Webuild’s indifference.

Kimber didn’t have the power to force people to answer questions and faced resistance from some of the sub-contractors, but he........

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