{"id":769007,"date":"2026-06-30T02:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769007\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T02:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:55:16","slug":"australia-news-live-australian-murder-suspect-faces-death-penalty-in-thailand-climate-change-el-nino-trigger-frustrating-start-to-ski-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769007\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Australian murder suspect faces death penalty in Thailand; climate change, El Nino trigger \u2018frustrating\u2019 start to ski season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said any evidence of corruption within the CFMEU should be immediately referred to the police, as he defended the federal government\u2019s action on the embattled union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no tolerance for organised crime, and it\u2019s appropriate that authorities take action when it comes to the CFMEU. In my first month as leader I expelled John Setka from the Labor Party. He took us to court, and we won that legal action. We have put the CFMEU into administration, something that was not done by the former government at all,\u201d Albanese told ABC\u2019s 7.30 last night.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese\u2019s comments came after<a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/they-knew-leaks-reveal-government-ignored-pleas-on-cfmeu-conduct-20260626-p60aab.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> revelations in this masthead<\/a> that the Victorian government knew the CFMEU\u2019s lawless takeover of its Big Build infrastructure program was driving massive labour cost blowouts but directed contractors to pay up and carry on, including $200 million to cope with out-of-control industrial relations on Labor\u2019s much-touted Metro Tunnel project. Reports in this masthead also went to the <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/don-t-pay-gatto-don-t-get-access-leaks-expose-companies-with-gangland-figure-on-payroll-20260628-p60anl.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">involvement of gangland figure Mick Gatto<\/a> in the alleged conduct.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said any evidence of corruption within the CFMEU should be immediately referred to the police. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0d4baaef99c182c7f7ec519681c4f8e2d1d0647a.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said any evidence of corruption within the CFMEU should be immediately referred to the police. Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said he had sought assurances that no federal funds would end up in the hands of gangland figures, as he backed Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan\u2019s response: \u201cThe premier has made her position very clear as well, of her opposition to any corruption, which is that it\u2019s appropriate the authorities take action\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about \u201cstrong evidence\u201d that money was flowing between contractors and organised crime figures, Albanese said: \u201c[Where] there is evidence of corrupt conduct in any area of Australian society, it\u2019s appropriate the authorities, the police take action, people are charged, and people have the book thrown at them, it\u2019s that simple,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s criminal activity, there should be the strongest possible action. Full stop. Exclamation mark.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said any evidence of corruption within the CFMEU should be immediately referred to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-769007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}