Companies such as Apple,Microsoft,Google and Meta face fines of almost $800,000 a day if they don’t come clean on their progress in combating child exploitation and sex abuse material on their platforms.
A controversial migration exemption from the Disability Discrimination Act allows the government to order the removal of migrants with long-term health conditions and their families.
But the former ACTU secretary says the move to overhaul the CFMEU is justified by the need to protect the interests of ordinary members.
The state says it should be treated differently to NSW and others because of the damage done to its economy by the pandemic.
Microsoft has estimated a software update by cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike disabled 8.5 million devices around the world,crippling airport check-ins,supermarkets and emergency information services.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has turned the dispute over the CFMEU into a political test over the cost of living,claiming the union has added 30 per cent to the cost of major projects.
Union officials and delegates have been called into meetings this week and stood down after damning revelations about the CFMEU and links to organised crime.
Three sources familiar with conversations inside the government and union movement said NSW Supreme Court Justice Stephen Rothman was among candidates being discussed as a potential administrator.
Union officials have vowed to fight “to the ends of the earth” against federal government moves to appoint an administrator to oversee the scandal-plagued CFMEU.
The advice to the government is that deregistering the CFMEU would not work because the union could continue to act against employers.
The move is an attempt to cauterise the political damage over revelations of underworld infiltration into the scandal-plagued construction union.