A high-profile expert’s work has been used as part of a campaign attacking allegations of a $15 billion cost for CFMEU Big Build misconduct. But he says he was never asked to test the figure.
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission to publish its long-awaited investigation into Victoria’s fire services.
In a lengthy,combative exchange with journalists,Jacinta Allan refused to accept that the wages bills for Big Build projects were excessive or that unjustified union demands had driven up the cost to taxpayers.
In an extraordinary parting shot,Victoria’s labour hire regulator says big firms are getting away with fuelling a rotten culture,as two former corruption chiefs say only a royal commission will clean up the state.
Eight years after The Age first revealed the corruption saga that engulfed Casey council,there remains a gaping hole in the government response to the issue.
United Firefighters Union secretary Peter Marshall has lost a court bid to keep his identity a secret as he fights to block the publication of an IBAC investigation.
Opposition Leader Jess Wilson,having resisted long-standing calls to broaden IBAC’s jurisdiction,says she will “seriously consider” the change if the Coalition is elected to government.
Former IBAC commissioners Stephen O’Bryan and Robert Redlich have been calling for greater powers since the early years of the anti-corruption agency. They remain frustrated by the lack of political action.
Premier Jacinta Allan says she is now convinced of the need to boost the reach of the state’s Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission.
Jacinta Allan has finally moved to grant the state’s corruption watchdog badly needed powers,but they will not be in place until late next year.