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Jim Soorley

June

The embattled Callide Power Station.

Workers threaten to ‘grind things down’ at troubled power station

The union has warned electricity prices will ultimately rise amid industrial action at the troubled Callide Power Station.

  • James Hall

March 2023

The C4 unit at Callide power station blew up in May 2021.

Prices jump after return of Callide C power station delayed again

Further delays to the return of the Callide C coal-fired power station in Central Queensland has pushed up wholesale power prices.

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  • Mark Ludlow

December 2022

Jim Soorley is chairman of government-owned power outfit CS Energy.

Secret consultancy of ALP heavyweight Jim Soorley revealed

When Brisbane’s ex-mayor chaired a ratepayer-backed water utility, he quietly became a “consultant” to a business working with the utility.

  • Liam Walsh and Mark Ludlow

October 2022

Sharon Kelsey, the first female chief executive of Logan council.

CEO appalled by sexist slur used against her by Labor powerbroker

Court documents have detailed an ALP elder and chairman of a state-owned power company calling a female council CEO vulgar terms on a tapped phone call.

  • Liam Walsh and Mark Ludlow

September 2022

Jim Soorley has worn many hats: priest, mayor, lobbyist, consultant and chairman of government-owned corporation.

Inside the world of Labor powerbroker Jim Soorley

A dispute over $2500 paid in a carpark and secretly taped calls reveal how a political powerbroker ‘consultant’ navigates the business and government worlds.

  • Liam Walsh and Mark Ludlow

June 2022

Jack Abramoff outside the Federal Court in Washington in 2006.

Olympic-sized lobbyist gold mine draws warning

One anti-corruption watchdog is asking for public responses to lobbying – and saying Brisbane’s 2032 Olympics could be an area to watch. 

  • Liam Walsh

November 2021

Fred Bart: wafer dreams

Fred Bart reveals TerraCom stake

We wouldn’t have thought it possible, but exceedingly colourful miner TerraCom has become even more interesting.

  • Myriam Robin

December 2020

Former priest and Brisbane lord mayor Jim Soorley.

Soorley not left hanging for minister's call back

The ALP powerbroker, former lord mayor and Catholic priest maintains he was consulting – not lobbying – when he contacted a top official.

  • Liam Walsh

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