Katter Says Obviously In A Civilised Society We Can’t Have Bikies Negotiating Deals On Behalf Of Our Trade Unions And I Can Understand Why Albanese Is Trying To Distance Himself From This Whole Victorian CFMEU Kerfuffle But Let’s Not Forget That Our Nurses And Teachers Haven’t Seen A Pay Rise That Matches Inflation For Well Over A Decade And Furthermore Our Bus And Train Drivers Are Commuting Further Than Their Own Bloody Passengers Before They Even Turn The Ignition So Don’t You Talk To Me About Organised Crime When We Know For A Fact That Our State Governments From Perth To Pitcairn Island Have Done Bugger All In Response To The Findings Of The 2017 Banking Royal Commission And The Very Well Documented Pillaging Of Our Middle Class That Has Taken Place Under The Watchful And Complicit Eyes Of Both Major Parties And I Say This Knowing Full Well I Could Get The Pennsylvania Treatment For Simply Pointing Out That Maybe We Might Be Looking At The Wrong Crooks Because The Last I Checked It Wasn’t These Tatted Up Jailbirds That Were Washing Billions In Foreign Drug Money Through Our Property Market It Was The Manboobed And Soft-Palmed Developers That Work In Partnership With Our State And Federal Legislators To Ensure That Shady Criminal Figures From Both Inside And Outside This Country Buy Property After Property And Then Immediately Take Out Loans Against Them Which They Repay With Dirty Cash That Has Been Accrued Through The Type Of Blood-Curdling Crimes That Our Nation’s Motorcycle Enthusiasts Could Only Dream Of Committing But No This Is All Fine As Long As The Stamp Duty Keeps Rolling In And As Long As Our Banking Cartels And Luxury High Rise Racketeers Get Their Clip And Now These Softcock Terrace House Journos Wonder Why The CFMEU Has Had To Use Some Lead Pipe Carrying Standover Men To Get A Better Deal For Their Members I Mean Lord Knows The Labor Party Aren’t Interested In Breaking Up This Circlejerk And Yes It’s Also Not Lost On Me That This Particular Trade Union Only Found Themselves In The Crosshairs After That Hot-Headed Croatian From Footscray Started Making Life Hard For The Beloved AFL Because While The Bankers And Developers Are A Protected Species There Are No Boots That Our Political Class Licks Harder Than The Italian Loafers That Come Off That Conveyor Belt Of Melbourne Private School Old Boys That Make Up The Top Brass Of Professional Aussie Rules Football Look I’m Sure It’s A Lovely Spectator Sport But In My Opinion It Just Looks Like A Bunch Of Suspiciously Agile Home And Away Stars Who’ve Never Had To Worry About Getting In The Way Of A Tongan’s Thigh Off The Off The Back Fence Let’s Just Call This For What It Is Right Here Right Now The Top End Of Town Are Horrified By The Fact That Our Political System Has To Bow To People Who Drive Maloo Utes And Struggle To Speak The King’s English So They’ve Launched A Smear Campaign On All 120,000 Members And Dismissed The Entire Movement As A Nest Of Bikies And Underworld Figures Well Let Me Just Tell You I’ve Seen Far Heavier-Handed Tactics From The Old Shearers’ Unions Of Yesteryear And If You Think The CFMEU’s Conduct Is Appalling Then I’m Sorry Sweetheart You’ve Lived A Very Charmed Life And Should Count Yourself Lucky You’ve Never Seen A Gang Of Transient Western Queensland Labourers Burn A Pioneering Family’s Shearing Shed To The Ground While Pissed On The Camp Cook’s Stash Of Vanilla Essence I Can Tell Ya Those Blokes Picketing In Brisbane And Victoria Have A Long Way To Go Before They Even Get Close To The Exploits Of The Gun Shearers Of My Youth Who Would Violently Flog Every Scab Labourer That Dared Step Foot In The Wrong Pub Half To Death And Sometimes Even Well Beyond It Mind You I’m Surprised They Even Found The Time To Take Any Industrial Action At All Because These Blokes Worked Bloody Hard And Played A Lot Harder I Mean It Even Got To The Point Where We Needed A Union For The Shearers’ Wives Just So They Could Get A Leg Over Because Friday He’s Too Tired, Saturday Too Drunk, And Sunday Too Far Away

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Three CFMEU branches, including the notorious Queensland branch, have been put into administration by the Labor government this week, as the fall out continues following reports from Nine newspapers about the union’s misconduct and links to bikie gangs.

As a proud supporter of the trade union movement, the Honourable Member for the North Queensland Federal electorate of Kennedy, Bob Katter III M has today offered a short soundbite about the current scandal surrounding the CFMEU.

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