Threat for the end of the cfmeu 'mafia'

The coalition has promised to implement a Federal Task Force to investigate ongoing criminal allegations in connection with CFMEU, with Peter Dutton comparing the controversy building union with “Der Mafia”.

The proposed unit was announced together with a number of measures to contain the militant Union, which forced the Albanese government last August after media reports on corruption to administration.

The Task Force would be headed by the Australian federal police and belong to other Commonwealth agencies, including the Australian tax office and the Australian criminal police as well as the police and territory police.

The opposition leader said, allegations of criminal infiltration, standover tactics, bullying and corruption to the CFMEU are the “greatest corruption scandal in our country”.

He said he wanted the union to be deregistered.

“What we have seen in the United States, with the Mafia and the Team Star (Union) and the relationship there, it was essentially adopted by crime figures here in Australia,” he said.

“The members of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gang are intertwined with members of the CFMEU.”

Mr. Dutton said he would also write Anthony Albanese to request resources to introduce and adopt laws if the parliament returns for the last week of session before the election.

The proposed laws would give the police greater powers to target the “royal lanes and bosses” that “do a pattern of criminal behavior”.

The Attorney General Michaelia Cash said that the current laws only allowed the authorities to address individuals who were involved in the crime.

She said the coalition plan would “put the organized crime down from the heart”.

“And as we all know when it comes to Kingpins, they often don't get their hands dirty from the bosses of organized crime,” she said.

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