IMMIGRATION Minister Chris Bowen has infuriated Julia Gillard and the nation's most powerful union leaders after granting Gina Rinehart, the world's richest woman, the right to import 1700 foreign workers for a massive West Australian iron ore project.
The scathing reaction from the unions over the decision to favour the mining magnate - while the government conducts a class war campaign against mining billionaires and vested interests to sell its "working families" budget - has exposed new divisions in the cabinet amid growing concerns about Julia Gillard's leadership.
As union leaders met the Prime Minister in Canberra yesterday, she told them she was "furious" the decision had not been taken to cabinet and that she had been informed of it only on Wednesday, sources have told The Weekend Australian.
By this time, Mrs Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting had already been informed of the decision and it could not be reversed.
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