As punishment for voting last week to correct (in part) his damaging job-destroying two year legislated delay in fully implementing the coalition’s restoration of the Australian Building and Construction Commission, the CFMEU erected a tent outside Senator Derryn Hinch’s Melbourne office. Marking his 73rd birthday with placards ‘Shame, Hinch, Shame’ and ‘Hinch sells out workers’, it was an unwelcome element in a broader ‘lying and despicable’ media and phone CFMEU campaign against him, including a threat to his re-election.