I guess he has to run a few things up the flag pole and see what gets traction. Via The Australian:
The Coalition will seek to revive controversial plans to disqualify law-breaking union officials after Scott Morrison moved to make industrial relations an election battleground by threatening to deregister the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union.
Asked whether he would consider deregistering the CFMEU, the Prime Minister said yesterday: “Well of course I would.”
Signalling a more aggressive approach to workplace relations than Malcolm Turnbull took, new Jobs and Industrial Relations Minister Kelly O’Dwyer said the government would consider “all options available to it to deal with the CFMEU”, including pursuing passage of proposed union governance laws stalled in the Senate.
I don’t like the CFMEU. Its putsch at the ACTU has gutted its usefulness in the push-back against the great Australian wages crush. So long as the CFMEU and ACTU campaign in favour of mass immigration to keep their members employed in endless, useless public projects and housing construction, wider wages have no chance of rebounding.
But that’s not what PM ScoMo is doing. He is simply attacking the CFMEU for being a militant union. Probably he will then try to tie Bill Shorten to union corruption yada, yada, yada…
That raises three questions:
- Is attacking labour unions going to help ScoMo gain support amid the great wages crush that has just destroyed Malcolm Turnbull?
- Is a focus on political attacks over national interest policy going to win him support?
- Is he a complete idiot?
