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The Guardian - AU
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Sarah Basford Canales and Tamsin Rose

New watchdog needed to weed out ‘toxic elements’ in CFMEU, independent MP says

Independent Member for Goldstein Zoe Daniel
Independent MP Zoe Daniel says Labor must resolve issues with the CFMEU and an independent administrator may not be enough. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The Albanese government’s plan to appoint an independent administrator to take control of the CFMEU will not be enough to clean up the embattled union’s “toxic elements”, the independent MP Zoe Daniel says, suggesting the industry may need a new watchdog.

The leftwing union has been under fire after Channel Nine and its mastheads began publishing allegations of organised crime links within the construction branch in Victoria.

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