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30am Welcome Hide key posts Posts area Latest 1 of 1 Latest posts Latest posts 5.45am Coalition call on Labor to stop accepting CFMEU donations By Josefine Ganko Coalition leaders have continued their calls for Labor to cease accepting donations from the CFMEU after an investigation by the Herald and The Age alleged criminal activity by the parts of the union. Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor told Nine’s Today that “Labor’s got to get serious about this”: [Labor’s] been taking donations from the CFMEU for many years, and the behaviour we’ve seen on these construction sites is completely unacceptable.
Labor has joined at the hip with the CFMEU, got rid of the [Australian Building and Construction Commission], and last time I was on this program we were just talking about the intimidation and threatening behaviour towards the head umpire of the AFL, by the CFMEU. So Labor’s got to get serious about this. Stop taking their donations, deregister and re-establish the ABCC.
That is the right thing to do.” Treasurer Jim Chalmers appeared on Today later in the .