Coalition uses Setka scandal to revive laws allowing deregistration of 'rogue' unions

Michael Sukkar demands Labor support rejected legislation allowing deregistration of unions

Scott Morrison’s government is reigniting its campaign to bring back legislation enabling it to deregister unions, using the controversy surrounding Victorian CFMMEU boss John Setka as a launch pad.

In an interview with the Australian Financial Review last week, Christian Porter, who has responsibility for industrial relations in Morrison’s new cabinet, said he believed the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union should be deregistered over what he called an “extraordinarily high standard of unlawful activity”.

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