Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said on Friday he deemed it in the “public interest” to place the union into administration, including its WA and ACT branches.
The Albanese Labor Government acted in July to place the union under administration nationally following media reports into the CFMEU, after which its South Australian and Victorian branches entered voluntary administration.
Victorian union secretary John Setka resigned just before the reports.
Former Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke then said the “number one job of any union is to look after its members”.
“The reported behaviour for the construction division of the CFMEU is the exact opposite of that obligation,” Burke said last month.
“It’s abhorrent, it’s…
