Former Victoria Police chief commissioner Shane Patton,pictured in 2022.

Former police chief commissioner requested to provide evidence in CFMEU case

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.

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Commissioner Stuart Wood.

Labor pressured by CFMEU to scrap former building code,inquiry hears

The CFMEU inquiry into allegations of corruption,criminal infiltration,bullying and other malpractice resumed on Tuesday.

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The Commission of Inquiry into the CFMEU wanted to speak to the men at future hearings.

Images released of protesters linked to brawl on Cross River Rail site

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.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan.

In challenging times,Victoria needs more from a leader under pressure

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.

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Don Johnson,who held roles at CPB until early this year – including as executive general manager from 2018,along with chief operating officer from 2022 – appeared before the inquiry on Thursday.

State role ‘swayed the negotiating balance’ in Cross River Rail talks

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.

  • Matt Dennien
Joel Leavitt leaves court on Thursday.

Bikie-linked ex-CFMEU official submits possibly doctored bail documents

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.

  • Erin Pearson
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Cross River Rail site on Roma Street,Brisbane.

CFMEU inquiry as it happened:Probe unearths details from key firm behind Cross River Rail

Welcome back for another day of our live coverage of the Commission of Inquiry into the CFMEU and Misconduct in the Construction Industry.

  • Matt Dennien

Witnesses ‘threatened’:AFP sounds underworld alarm on CFMEU probe

A senior federal police officer has warned its investigation into the construction industry is being hampered by threats from organised crime figures.

  • Nick McKenzie andRachel Eddie
Cross River Rail Delivery Authority chief executive Graeme Newton gave during his day-and-a-half in the Queensland CFMEU inquiry witness box this week.

How the CFMEU tried to,and did,influence Qld’s biggest rail project

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.

  • Matt Dennien
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan

CFMEU disruption did not blow North East Link’s budget,says premier

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.

  • Rachel Eddie andNick McKenzie