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LIVE: Mike O'Reilly: Union Thuggery, Albanese's Tax "Carve-Out" & The Whyalla Shipyards | Jeremy Cordeaux

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Jeremy Cordeaux takes a fired-up call from Mike O'Reilly, a former Advertiser journalist and community-engagement veteran, who unloads on Anthony Albanese's tax backflip — rebranded as a "carve-out" — and what he calls a new world record for political spin. The conversation widens into a blistering account of union power in Australia: the faceless men of the old ALP, the CFMEU, the painters and dockers who posted black hands to enemies, and the Whyalla shipyards that vanished after decades of standover tactics. Mike shares first-hand stories from the docks — Chris Corrigan's "ghost" pay packets at Patrick Stevedoring, a $1,000 cash shakedown on the Melbourne wharf to lift a yacht — and the scrapping of the building-industry watchdog. It's raw talkback at its best, finishing on a warm note about Foodland, grandbabies, and the "legends card." Recorded live from Jeremy's dining room table for The Court of Public Opinion.

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