The Victorian premier’s deep roots in the union movement place her on the front line of fallout from the scandal enveloping the CFMEU.
“What … wh ... wh ... what have you got that shows they were put to me in writing?” Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan stuttered when asked why it took her more than a year to respond to a whistleblower’s warning about CFMEU intimidation tactics on Victorian construction sites.
New Resolve polling, conducted just before the CFMEU investigation broke, has put support for her government at just 27 per cent, its lowest level in years as growing debt, project blow-outs and cuts to roads and hospitals begin to hit home. Once Setka stepped aside, Allan became the highest-profile figure threatened by the CFMEU scandal, which was triggered by a series of explosive reports fromThis crisis presents perhaps the greatest existential threat the dominant Andrews-Allan government has faced in its 10 years in power.
The Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission wrote back only on June 21 this year. “IBAC has decided not to investigate or refer your complaint to another agency for investigation,” it wrote. Andrews and Allan’s winning political strategy has relied on working hand in glove with the militant construction union. The relationship was perhaps best symbolised by the CFMEU posters on building sites across Melbourne before the 2022 election which labelled Andrews a “prick” but one who was “delivering for construction workers”.– traditionally running commercial building sites – to take charge of civil construction, traditionally the domain of Labor Right union the Australian Workers Union.
Allan rejected suggestions that she could kick CFMEU members off work sites, saying it would be an attack on workers. “That’s not a plan, that’s an extreme attack, an extreme attack on workers, an extreme attack on jobs, an extreme attack on projects our growing city and state needs,” she said.To understand the existential crisis Allan faces, it helps to understand how much the union movement is embedded in Allan’s DNA.
As an arts student at La Trobe University, she became secretary of the ALP’s Bendigo South branch at just 21. After staffing stints including for Labor MP Lindsay Tanner, she was put forward for the Coalition-held seat of Bendigo East in 1999 and won as Steve Bracks unexpectedly swept to power over Kennett.There was a short-lived marriage in 2004 to Australian Workers’ Union organiser Ben Davis – who went on to become the AWU’s Victorian secretary – with Bill Shorten as best man.
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