{"id":88594,"date":"2024-07-17T17:34:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T07:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=88594"},"modified":"2024-07-17T17:48:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T07:48:31","slug":"the-australian-labor-party-has-a-conflict-of-interest-and-cannot-investigate-the-cfmeu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=88594","title":{"rendered":"The Australian Labor Party has a conflict of interest and cannot investigate the CFMEU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Australian Labor Party has a unquestionable conflict of interest when it comes to the CFMEU and more so in Victoria where rail and road projects costs $billions more than any other state in the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>$1.86 billion<\/strong>\u00a0Forrestfield-Airport Link project has delivered a new rail service to the eastern suburbs of Perth \u2013 with three new stations at Redcliffe, Airport Central and High Wycombe.  The Melbourne Airport link being built above ground is 7 x the cost off the airport link in Perth which is built underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Melbourne Airport Rail Link is now priced at $12b probably more when it is finished and over a similar distance.  How can this be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How much of the difference will find its way back to the ALP somewhere?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can a political party who receives donations from a corrupt union (a receipent of the proceeds of crime) possibly be tasked with investgating that behaviour?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can a political party who receives donations from a corrupt union (a receipent of the proceeds of crime) possibly be tasked with investgating that behaviour?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":88596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7391,3356,1],"tags":[472,11500,10044,8751],"class_list":["post-88594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-bribe-and-corruption-probe","category-corruption","category-uncategorized","tag-australian","tag-cfmeu","tag-federal-labor-government","tag-victorian-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88598,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88594\/revisions\/88598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}