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Albanese’s answer to the CFMEU rot looks short of the mark

The Herald's View October 25, 2025 — 5.00am

It is 15 months since Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Australians that the decision to appoint an independent administrator of the CFMEU represented “the strongest possible action”.

Yet in March of this year, our investigative reporter Nick McKenzie spoke exclusively to one of administrator Mark Irving KC’s employees, barrister Geoffrey Watson SC, who raised the alarm over the extent of organised crime’s infiltration of Victoria’s Big Build.

In the months since, there have been repeated reminders of the scale of this problem, from the allegations against construction giant Webuild and its subcontractor Future Form involving wo

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