Ultimately the corruption lies between the developer and the unions. So why is it the unions are the only ones blamed? History shows money doesn't only flow in one direction there are no billionaires among the unions. The LNP held a Royal Commission into the unions and it found no obvious institutional corruption. Being a "bikie" and a staunch unionist is hardly criminal but reputationally easily negatively publicized.

Australia is a swamp of antiquated adversarial relationships as the one between Capital and Labor. We watched other nations race ahead particularly where corporate boards like Germany's and others that chose to adopt a more cooperative and even distribution of shareholder and labor reps  along with a greater balance of men and women sitting on them .

Union whistleblower Andrew Quirk questions the clean-up of corruption in the building industry and foreshadows a further decline in building standards if this is not achieved.