The former head of the construction industry watchdog has scoffed at claims by the Labor government that he was unaware of the CFMEU’s underworld links, saying he had repeatedly alerted parliament to the union’s links to bikies and organized crime over two decades.

Former Australian Building and Construction Commission commissioner Nigel Hadgkiss has called for the return of an industry watchdog with new punitive powers against unions to tackle an underworld takeover of the construction industry.

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