Queensland Council of Unions common secretary Jacqueline King informed the inquiry that regardless of beforehand being near ousted CFMEU secretary Michael Ravbar and realizing one another since their late 20s, the pair haven’t spoken for nearly a decade.
King stated on the time she was residing interstate and coping with the union by some consulting work, and spoke to Ravbar final about 2017 or 2018.
Around this time, the CFMEU disaffiliated from the QCU over the state’s Workplace Health and Safety “finest apply assessment”.
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The CFMEU had pulled away from the state’s peak union council over the scope of one of many assessment’s suggestions for a brand new industrial manslaughter legislation, which the CFMEU needed to be a lot broader and the QCU had issues may seize staff themselves, King stated.
When King’s predecessor on the QCU, Michael Clifford, introduced her in as an assistant common secretary in 2020, he had requested King to achieve out to Ravbar given the pair’s historical past. Ravbar “by no means returned my cellphone name,” King stated.
Costello asks about her final contact with fellow ousted CFMEU chief Jade Ingham, who King says she spoke to right here and there at occasions through the years and final spoke in 2024. Costello says he’ll carry her again to that final level.
“The CFMEU had been attempting to regulate the QCU and didn’t get their means in an argument and used that as the idea to disaffiliate,” King says. “So I feel it was extra of an influence wrestle than something”.
King stated Ravbar wasn’t a fan of former QCU common secretary Ros McLennan and had been hoping to “lead one other posse of unions to disaffiliate” and power her to resign so he may “put somebody in that he may management”.
