Dutton: Mafia-style laws needed to stop CFMEU construction 'rip-off'

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Mafia-style laws are needed to clean up the construction sector and stop Australian taxpayers being "ripped off", Peter Dutton says. The federal opposition leader said underworld figures were behind much of the industry, describing it as the biggest corruption scandal in the nation's history. Vision courtesy: AAP

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00:00We've essentially got organised crime figures running the construction sector in this country.

00:04This is the biggest corruption scandal in our country's history because we are talking

00:08about billions of dollars, billions of dollars that are being paid by ultimately Australian

00:14taxpayers through the Victorian government, through the Albanese government for bloated

00:19prices, project times are being blown out, the costs are escalating, and for every kilometre

00:26of road that's being built or every hospital that's being built, there's a 30% CFMEU tax

00:31at least.

00:32By the accounts of some of the developers and builders, it could be closer to 100%.

00:38So Australian taxpayers are being ripped off here.

00:41And what we saw in the United States with the mafia in control and the Teamsters and

00:47the relationship that existed there, it's essentially been adopted by crime figures

00:51here in Australia.

00:52The outlaw motorcycle gang members are intertwined with members of the CFMEU.

00:57The CFMEU has donated $11.5 million to Mr Albanese's party and to Ms Allen's party.

01:04They are completely and utterly compromised.

01:06And the corruption here goes to the heart of the Albanese government.

01:10The Albanese government has known for years about the CFMEU, about the abuse and the violence

01:15against women, about the extortion, about the links to the outlaw motorcycle gangs.

01:19All of that has been fully known to ministers in the Albanese government, and yet they've

01:25done nothing about it.

01:26Now, why this is really important to Australians, and I think particularly to Victorians at

01:30the moment, is that when homes are getting broken into by kids who are stealing money

01:34or stealing valuables to sell, they're fuelling a drug habit.

01:38They're buying drugs from outlaw motorcycle gang members who are the biggest distributors

01:43of amphetamines and drugs in our country.

01:46They're stealing cars from your home at the moment because there is a market that's been

01:50created by outlaw motorcycle gangs who are rebirthing these vehicles stolen from mums

01:55and dads who have worked hard here in Victoria and across the country.

01:59That is the other limb of the outlaw motorcycle gang business model.

02:03And the CFMEU, by paying figures, shadowy figures, and extortion payments to the outlaw

02:10motorcycle gang members, that's fuelling that criminal enterprise.

02:14Now, the Prime Minister stood up this faux administration model, which has only seen

02:20the CFMEU go from strength to strength.

02:23There are some individuals who are being employed now by building companies who work

02:27for the CFMEU.

02:28What are they doing?

02:30There are builders who are intimidated and feel that they can't provide information to the

02:34police because they feel that they are physically threatened by these outlaw motorcycle gang

02:40members who are doing the enforcement activities, who are the hired muscle for the CFMEU.

02:46We are literally wasting billions of dollars of taxpayers' money through this corrupt model,

02:51which is sanctioned by Anthony Albanese.

02:54The Prime Minister has no interest in clearing it up because he is the financial

02:58beneficiary, his party is the financial beneficiary of the donations of the CFMEU.

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