Responding to the CFMEU Watson Report || Did the CFMEU really push up construction costs?

Friday, 27 February 2026 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics.

Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha, Zane Alcorn

Newsreports

Headline news discussion on the issue of the Isis brides and how the Albanese government's refusal to repardiate them back to Australia enables and feeds into the populist right.

Discussion about Albanese's sexist characterisation of Grace Tame as "difficult".

Interviews and Discussion

Recording of a talk by Guy Gillor from Anti-zionism Australia speaking at a public forum on February 24 titled "Speaking up against genocide: Why Labor is criminalising dissent". You can listen to the individual talk here.

Sue Bull, former CFMEU trainer and member of Socialist Alliance discusses why Geoffrey Watson’s CFMEU report to Qld inquiry is an attack on all unions. You can listen to the individual interview here.

Saul Eslake, independent economist based in Tasmania joins the program to unpack the real cost of the Big Build Project in Victoria and whether the CFMEU really cost the tax payers over $15 billion. You can listen to the individual interview here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 7:00am to 8:30am
A weekly source of alternative information which aims to inspire action and organisation to put people and the environment first. Covering international political issues and struggles against the exploitation of the people and exposing the bias in mainstream media that preferences the power brokers and denies access to information.

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Green Left Radio Collective

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