Labor needs to succeed where the Coalition failed on CFMEU

Neither the Albanese government nor the ACTU will be overly upset at being publicly reviled by the CFMEU’s ousted executives, with terms like “Albonazi”, “sellout” and “traitor” being bandied around. Being attacked by a union associated with thuggery, bikies, corruption and domestic violence — despite the efforts of some commentators to downplay those — won’t keep Labor MPs awake at night. Moreover, they’ll undermine Peter Dutton’s claims that Labor is soft on the CFMEU. He’s not the one being compared to Hitler on protest placards. Indeed, with CFMEU leaders vowing the “absolute destruction” of the ALP, presumably it’s a Dutton prime ministership they want after the next election.