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In what is being described as a revolutionary new approach to law and order, it seems that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are no longer needed when it comes to policing organised crime in this country.
This new style of policing was debuted last week as Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus announced that all branches of the construction arm of the CFMEU trade union were being placed into administration in response to allegations of criminal infiltration and corruption.
The allegations, which have not been investigated or confirmed by either State or Federal police, were exposed by Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes.
The fact that nobody even watches this programme – or free-to-air television in general – anymore is irrelevant. Because the explosive allegations of underworld links to Australia’s most powerful trade union (that were provided by unnamed sources and printed on every newspaper belonging to this same media company) are damning enough for the government to act immediately.
No cops, senate inquiries, royal commissions or actual names were needed to justify the Government’s swift punishment of the CFMEU off the back of these allegations.
The government didn’t even appear motivated by the blatant lack of public outrage about the fact that some cashed up builders with tattoos and hotted up cars might be friends with motorcycle club members.
They chose to act quickly. Which is the responsible thing to do.
It’s a far cry from the free-pass that our elected officials gave the Australian banks after multiple government agencies, a royal commission and plenty of cops exposed irrefutable evidence of millions of breaches in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism laws.
Maybe it’s because these same media companies that have EXPOSED the CFMEU somehow forgot to mention that AUSTRAC (Australian Transactions Reports and Analysis Centre) the big 4 of Australia’s political protected financial institutions hadn’t even been shy about facilitating millions of transactions that have enabled child exploitation in South-East Asia. Let alone the forreign terrorist groups who were moving money through our banks faster than the bullets that they fire at innocent civillians.
The fact that not one banker, or even bank teller, was arrested or convicted for these very real crimes is a surprise in hindsight. Especially when considering how quickly the government has able to place the CFMEU into administration off the back of little to no real evidence outside of unconfirmed media reports from news companies who would cease to exist without the advertising dollar from billionaire property developers, who also don’t mind the odd political donation.
