Shane Patton has been issued with two subpoenas by defence lawyers for Joel Shackleton,who’s charged with threatening to kill the owners of an Indigenous labour hire company.
The CFMEU inquiry into allegations of corruption,criminal infiltration,bullying and other malpractice resumed on Tuesday.
The CFMEU Inquiry has released images of 15 men it claimed were present at an Annerley worksite on May 1,2024,shortly before a violent confrontation.
There’s a litany of reasons behind Jacinta Allan’s poor polling and restless frontbench. The state needs her government to find a way through.
Former CPB executive Don Johnson also told a Queensland inquiry the contractor “had to” hire CFMEU safety reps to end the union’s 2023 project lockdown.
The only person alleged blackmailer Joel Leavitt is permitted to travel with under his bail conditions is a suspected Bandidos motorcycle gang chapter president,a court has heard.
Welcome back for another day of our live coverage of the Commission of Inquiry into the CFMEU and Misconduct in the Construction Industry.
A senior federal police officer has warned its investigation into the construction industry is being hampered by threats from organised crime figures.
Cross River Rail boss Graeme Newton has told a state inquiry of the union’s extensive pressure campaign,including the early sidelining of a key internal critic.
The consortium building the 10-kilometre project had complained to the government in March 2023 that the union’s mischief had pushed back tunnelling by as much as two months.