Senate could block Tony Abbott's bid to unleash Australian Building and Construction Commission

By James Massola
Updated July 4 2014 - 3:13pm, first published 6:29am

Tony Abbott's plan to restore the building industry watchdog, a key plank of the government's workplace reform policy, faces an uncertain path through the new Senate, with just two of the eight crossbenchers prepared to pledge their vote to restoring the Australian Building and Construction Commission.

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