The underworld figure has long played a role in the building industry but rarely would people speak publicly about it,until now.
Victoria’s housing minister failed to boost consumer protections despite receiving advice about reducing the risks for home building customers eight months before one of the state’s largest home builders collapsed.
Lindsay Partridge,who runs the country’s largest brick manufacturer Brickworks,reckons the RBA waited too long to raise rates and that’s hurting the construction sector.
And cataloguing the donkey votes.
But even applied science can’t tackle a Wet Leg.
Labor’s divisive industrial relations bill passed the lower house despite a wall of vocal opposition,indicating the looming Senate fight next month.
A confidential staff survey of the building watchdog found it was racked by “contagious negative morale” and a “culture typified by active mistrust”.
Independent MP Allegra Spender has joined the criticism of the Albanese government’s industrial relations changes saying they are “the most far-reaching industrial relations reform since John Howard’s Work Choices”.
The Prime Minister’s first question time was dominated by fierce debate about the future of the Australian Building and Construction Commission.
Even after Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke scraps the building code,the Australian Building and Construction Commission can take legal action.
Commissioner Stephen McBurney will continue to earn more than $450,000 with his powers all but removed until the government can legislate his removal.