00:00I certainly believe that that is the best and toughest measure that we can possibly
00:05be taking to clean up what is a disgraceful infiltration, it would seem, of the CFMEU
00:11by organised crime elements.
00:14Tony Burke has obviously taken advice on these matters from his department and it's clear
00:18from that advice that the best thing we can be doing and the most effective thing we can
00:21be doing is having independent administrators appointed to the CFMEU construction division
00:27and that will happen with the government's full support.
00:29I don't think it's surprising that there are elements within the CFMEU that are not happy
00:33with the firm action that the government is taking so I'm not particularly surprised by
00:37those remarks.
00:38I think it obviously would be in the interests particularly of the CFMEU's members who it
00:43is there to represent for the union to cooperate with this independent administration.
00:49I would have thought that the union's officials have an interest in demonstrating that they
00:52are clean and that they run a clean organisation.
00:55So I would expect, and I think the entire community would expect, them to cooperate
00:59with this.
01:00I might just also make the point, I know there's been a lot of talk about why we're doing an
01:05independent administration rather than deregistration and we saw Peter Dutton yesterday call for
01:09the deregistration of the CFMEU.
01:12That just shows a gross failure on Peter Dutton's part of what the implications of deregistration
01:17would be.
01:18If this union was to be deregistered, as Peter Dutton wants it to happen, it would mean that
01:23they are completely free of regulation.
01:25This would be a gift to the criminals elements who seem to have infiltrated the CFMEU because
01:31they would then be able to operate without any regulation whatsoever.
01:35So it's complete nonsense from Peter Dutton.
01:37It would free up the worst elements of this union to keep operating without any regulation
01:42and that's why we've taken the sensible approach and the tough approach of getting behind the
01:46Fair Work Commission in attempting to have this organisation, and having this organisation,
01:51have independent administrators appointed to it.
01:53I would certainly expect the National Executive of the Labor Party to be making moves in that
01:57direction this morning and that would have my full support.
02:01Obviously the ALP has an interest in making sure that donations we receive aren't tainted
02:06from infiltration from criminal gangs, which seems to be occurring here, so I would firmly
02:11support that action by the National Executive if that's what they do this morning.
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