Premier Jacinta Allan has expressed disgust at revelations that a Big Build labour hire company run by a man with a history of abusing women profited from her government’s gender equity program.
Opposition Leader Jess Wilson also renewed calls for a royal commission after The Age revealed on Friday that Women In Construction, a company which supplies women labourers to the North East Link, level-crossing removals and other major projects, is owned by a man convicted of domestic violence and was previously run by a drug trafficker.
Women in Construction is owned by a male serial domestic violence abuser. Monique Westerman Wilson seized on the “absolutely sickening” revelations to restate her promise to establish a royal commission into Big Build corruption if the Coalition won November’s state election.
Allan, when questioned at a parliamentary inquiry about the latest disclosures of criminal infiltration of Big Build sites, was unable to say when she first became aware of the Women In Construction company or how much it had been paid.
She confirmed its licence to operate was being reviewed by the Labour Hire Authority as part of its ongoing work to clean up government projects.
“Those allegations that have been report
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