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Speaker 1: To Australia where our Australia correspondent Donna Jamayo, Donna, great

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Speaker 1: to have you on the show. Voters swinging to Dutton.

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Speaker 1: This is a new sign of angst and it's all

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Speaker 1: to do with the economy.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the cost of living pressures are really taking their

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Speaker 2: toll on Australians. We've got a resolve. Poll findings have

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Speaker 2: been released today and we're hearing that voters have pretty

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Speaker 2: much lifted the coalition to another high. According to this poll,

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Speaker 2: support for Opposition leader Peter Dutton on the increase. These

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Speaker 2: new findings show fifty five percent of Australians expect the

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Speaker 2: national outlook to worsen. Primary vote Coalition lifted thirty six

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Speaker 2: to thirty eight percent now and Labor is still excuse me,

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Speaker 2: still sitting on twenty eight percent and that is the

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Speaker 2: lowest level since Anthony Albanesi took power at the last

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Speaker 2: election in twenty twenty two. And if you look at

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Speaker 2: the pole findings, well preferred PM Peter Dutton thirty five

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Speaker 2: and Albanezi sitting on thirty four, which.

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Speaker 1: Is a huge turnaround from even just a year ago,

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Speaker 1: right where it was twenty five forty sex So significant,

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Speaker 1: very very significant. Donald, Let's talk about this union and

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Speaker 1: the allegations of corruption. What's happening here.

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Speaker 2: So it's one of Australia's most powerful unions. It's the

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Speaker 2: Building Union, the Construction Union, and it could face de registration.

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Speaker 2: Allegations have been aired of alleged criminal links within the CFME.

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Speaker 2: He used Victorian branch and the fallout has been swiss

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Speaker 2: since his allegations aired on the weekend. We've heard from

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Speaker 2: Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke. Now he's asked his department

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Speaker 2: to advise him on ministerial powers. Now he's responding to

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Speaker 2: allegations such as bike we're acting as union delegates, other

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Speaker 2: claims that there were links between organized crime and construction projects.

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Speaker 2: Now he says he finds the allegations abhorrent. The Victorian

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Speaker 2: Premier just st Alan says she has deep disgusted in

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Speaker 2: regard to the alleged behavior and he's grappling with the

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Speaker 2: thuggish and rotten behavior that we are hearing about and

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Speaker 2: there's no place for it in Victoria. And we've also

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Speaker 2: heard from the national union body, the ACTU. Sally McManus

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Speaker 2: says that investigation will be set up and Albanezi. Our

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Speaker 2: PM says more action is needed because we actually had

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Speaker 2: the Victorian branch of the CFMA you placed into administration

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Speaker 2: yesterday last Friday, the boss of the VICCFMU, John Seka,

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Speaker 2: he resigned and naturally he's denying any wrongdoing.

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Speaker 1: Naturally. Donald Demayer in Australia, our Australia correspondent. For more

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