\u201cThere\u2019s actually going to be potentially interesting repercussions for South Australia out of this,\u201d Penbo said earlier. \u201cThere was a bloke here called Aaron Cartledge who for more than 30 years was a member of the CFMEU locally\u2026 he was the state secretary up until a couple of years ago and Setka and all his yahoo mates from Victoria basically overtook the South Australian branch.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSetka was here on holidays at Christmas 2016 and he went off his tree that the first thing he saw when he arrived in Adelaide at Christmastime was CFMEU members working. He saw all these building sites around Adelaide and his head exploded\u2026 he wrote this expletive-laden email, sent it around nationally calling Aaron Cartledge and the other South Australians \u2018f—ing weak c—s for the fact there were workers going about there business\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cWithin months Cartledge had been sidelined. He\u2019d been kicked out effectively of the state branch\u2026 and it\u2019s been taken over since then by much more hard-line Victorian-aligned radical union bosses, which is why the union here has had all these fines.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Setka goes, what does it mean for the South Australian branch?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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