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Donna Demaio: Australia Correspondent on the growing support for Peter Dutton and the coalition · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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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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