Thursday, 19 February 2026

 Jade BENHAM (Mildura) (09:59): Victorians are watching a government that has completely lost control. On one hand we have a CFMEU corruption scandal so rotten it beggars belief – allegations of bikie infiltration, criminal elements embedded in major projects and millions in taxpayer dollars flowing through a culture so compromised even the integrity agencies are now calling out the untruths. This is not a minor compliance issue, this is systemic decay. For years the Allan Labor government wrapped itself up in the CFMEU like a political security blanket, and now the blanket has fleas and Victorian taxpayers are paying the price. Every pothole, every underfunded hospital, every CFA brigade, every delayed school build, every infrastructure project that comes in hundreds of millions of dollars over budget, Victorians are entitled to ask: how much of this is because Labor turned a blind eye?