Greens MP criticised for addressing CFMEU rally featuring Albanese Nazi signs

Max Chandler-Mather says he does not agree with offensive signs' but says Labor had supported the biggest anti-union attack in decades'

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The workplace relations minister, Murray Watt, has blasted the Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather for addressing a CFMEU rally that featured banners labelling the prime minister a Nazi and likening him to Adolf Hitler.

Watt told ABC Radio National that some of the banners at the rally in Brisbane did not reflect well on either the construction wing of the CFMEU or on Chandler-Mather and that it was very, very disturbing" the Greens MP was prepared to appear.

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