Jon Faine
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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And that's what's happened with the big build.
Well, it's dogged the Victorian government and her refusal to take it as seriously as people wanted her to
has cost her her stewardship of Victoria, undoubtedly, in my mind.
There are clearly problems from the stories that have come out and the inquiries that have been conducted, although they are media or low-level inquiries and nobody knows how far it'll go if you really got stuck in, for instance, with the Royal Commission.
There have been any number of people with significant histories of serious crime, bikies, people involved in all sorts of extortion and other rackets who have popped up on the books of the CFMEU in critical circumstances.
jobs on infrastructure projects.
So Jacinda Allen never really came out and said, look, you know, let's get to the bottom of this.
Instead, it was always, oh, look, you know, there might be some problems here and there.
And she always defended the CFMEU and she was always seen as being in some way either protective, overly protective of them or not prepared to get stuck in where someone else might.
Yeah.
And she said, I can understand in theory that this is a fair argument, but in practice, it was bad politics.
She said, if you want to change the culture of the construction sector, you don't do it with a long, slow, expensive Royal Commission.
And there was that kind of, that's not how you do it.
Here's how we're going to do it.
We're going to change the culture of the construction sector much more quickly and more effectively.
No one ever believed her and no one bought that.
So Ben Carroll, he will immediately announce a full Royal Commission into the allegations of CFMEU and other bikey and other infiltration.
If you go back to that moment where at a press conference Ben Carroll pledged his loyalty, he does say, today.
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But let's not split hairs, yes.
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