# The CFMEU Construction and General Division is placed into administration

Date: 2024

## The fact

On 22 August 2024 the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Administration) Act 2024 received Royal Assent. On 23 August Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus determined a scheme placing the CFMEU Construction and General Division into administration, with Mark Irving KC appointed. Officers were removed.

## Context

Nine media and FWC files sat as parent weather. Neighbouring Secure Jobs and Closing Loopholes are different IR files. He did not sit as every site delegate.

Secure Jobs 2022 abolished the ABCC as a parent IR reset. Same-job-same-pay 2023 is a neighbour labour file.

The Prime Minister of Australia chairs Cabinet and advises the Governor-General. Parliament enacts; the Governor-General assents. He does not write a High Court judgment, a state housing approval, or a US AUKUS submarine yard print.

## Evidence and sources

Federal Register of Legislation carries the official instrument or communique. ABC News records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [political polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) and [labour-market tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness): a completed forced administration of a construction union.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 22–23 August 2024 Act and determination, independently reported.

Not established: that every allegation was thereby proven in a criminal court that week, or a unique later dwelling-completion coefficient from the administration.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Governor-General assented. Dreyfus determined the scheme. He led Cabinet. The union’s officers share the parent-allegation file.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The CFMEU Construction and General Division is placed into administration, not a later speech about The CFMEU Construction and General Division is placed into administration.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The CFMEU Construction and General Division is placed into administration on 2024-08-23 is not a licence to treat every later Federal Register of Legislation communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The CFMEU Construction and General Division is placed into administration into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Parliament passed. The Governor-General assented. Dreyfus determined the scheme. He led Cabinet. The union’s officers share the parent-allegation file. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Anthony Albanese: https://factrail.ai/people/anthony-albanese

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization
- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-23/cfmeu-branches-forced-into-administration/104260994
- https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2024A00074/asmade

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-cfmeu-2024