The Federal Government’s decision to appoint a Royal Commission into the culture of corrupt and intimidatory practices in the building industry is an overdue attempt to restore confidence to an industry which for decades has been marred by violence and standover tactics.The building industry’s culture of violence came to the fore with the Builders’ Labourers Federation (BLF), when led by Peking-line communist, Norm Gallagher, in the 1970s and 1980s. The BLF was ultimately deregistered by the Haw…
