What do Achmed the dead terrorist and Bill Oliver the union boss have in common?
CFMEU Construction boss Bill Oliver has threatened to organise a preselection against all state and federal ministers who refuse to submit to his authority. The angry threats – reminiscent of Achmed the Dead Terrorist of Youtube fame – were issued in an epic dummy spit by the union bully boy after federal Ministers denied his demand for a meeting. “He couldn’t even get the basics right, like arranging appointments before spending his union members’ money on flying business class to Canberra,” one cyncial Party observer remarked familiar with this week’s merriment in the nation’s capital. Some thought NUW secretary Anthony Thow and SDA patriot chieftain Michael Donovan walking along the corridors of power with the head of Australia’s most notoriously corrupt and thuggish trade union, Bill Oliver to be a highly amusing sight to behold. The only one missing was Steve Dargavel who had been ordered home on the grounds that he threatened to make the alliance partner’s pitch offensive just pl
