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Paddy Crumlin

December 2024

Cbus chairman Wayne Swan is sure the fund’s expenditures are value for money. Deloitte isn’t.

Wayne Swan’s Cbus testimony an unexploded bomb

A discrepancy has now emerged between Wayne Swan’s (very) recent Senate testimony and the findings of a review dated two days before his appearance.

  • Myriam Robin

Super funds should be governed like banks

Wayne Swan’s defence of the appointment of CFMEU-linked trustees to the Cbus board shows why APRA should be able to remove directors who do not meet the criteria.

  • Helen Bird

September 2024

Cbus’ CFMEU-picked directors have left but three more are awaiting approval to replace them.

Minister, watchdog put onus on Cbus to decide on controversial directors

Industrial Relations Minister Murray Watt and the prudential watchdog sidestepped any endorsement of union firebrand Paddy Crumlin to the board.

  • Hannah Wootton
Paddy Crumlin has been nominated to the board of Cbus.

Boss of worst super fund tapped to join Cbus board

The CFMEU administrator nominated Maritime Union boss Paddy Crumlin to the $92 billion construction industry fund’s board despite his stint chairing the failed Maritime Super.

  • Hannah Wootton and Michael Read

July 2023

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ASIC warned unions, ACTU on super funds

The corporate watchdog had concerns that two unions breached financial advice laws in communications about three collapsed super funds.

  • Hannah Wootton
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February 2023

The CFMEU’s contributions to Labor now make up 25 per cent of all union contributions.

CFMEU donations to federal Labor surge between elections

The CFMEU made up more than a third of unions’ party-declared donations to Labor in the lead up to the 2022 election.

  • David Marin-Guzman

December 2021

The Maritime Union is once more in the sights of a Coalition government.

Frydenberg puts port reform on the election agenda

The government has charged the Productivity Commission with reviewing waterfront inefficiencies, including the industrial relations regime for wharfies.

  • Phillip Coorey
Maritime Union of Australia national secretary Paddy Crumlin said “of course not” to potential Christmas strikes.

MUA rules out Christmas strikes as industrial disputes climb

The head of the wharfies’ union has said there will be no industrial action at ports in the lead up to Christmas following Scott Morrison’s threat to intervene.

  • David Marin-Guzman
Tony Burke said the push against the MUA was an attack on the workers who helped Australia through the pandemic

Labor, unions to fight PM’s push to take on wharfies

The unions and Labor have accused the government stirring up conflict in a desperate grab for votes.

  • Phillip Coorey and David Marin-Guzman

September 2021

MUA head Paddy Crumlin has been chairman of Maritime Super since 2009.

Maritime Super chairman slams ‘ongoing attack’ on underperforming fund

Maritime Super chairman Paddy Crumlin has found a loophole in ASIC’s guidance by contacting members in his capacity as the head of the Maritime Union of Australia.

  • Michael Read and David Marin-Guzman

April 2021

Maritime Super says it’s still up for a merger

Maritime Super has hit back at claims it will be left little more than a shell company following an investment outsourcing deal with Hostplus, and is still on the hunt for merger opportunities. 

  • Ronald Mizen
Naomi Edwards is driving mergers across the superannuation system.

Spirit Super hits out at Maritime-Hostplus-style mergers

Naomi Edwards, the chairwoman of the $23 billion Spirit Super, has criticised parts of the $3 trillion sector for “getting wealthy on the back of a compulsory superannuation system”.

  • Michael Roddan

February 2021

Maritime Super, a union-linked fund chaired by Maritime Union of Australia leader Paddy Crumlin, will continue to pay more than $2.5 million in directors and executive remuneration annually.

Maritime Super board, executives to keep $2.5m pay after merger

A $61 billion pooling arrangement between Industry super’s Hostplus and Maritime Super is ripe for scrutiny from the prudential regulator.

  • Ronald Mizen and Michael Roddan

October 2020

Maritime Union of Australia Sydney assistant secretary Paul Garrett.

Wharfies union agrees to ceasefire on port dispute

It will withdraw all industrial action at the ports for at least a month despite failing to reach a pay deal following intense negotiations.

  • David Marin-Guzman

September 2020

Prime Minister Scott Morrison called on the union movement to distance itself from the militant maritime union.

PM slams waterfront 'extortion' as supply chain delays grow

Scott Morrison has condemned wharfies' work bans as "straight-out" extortion while Patrick stevedores warns it could take three months to return supply chains to normal.

  • David Marin-Guzman and Sue Mitchell
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The industrial action at the waterfront has seen one shipping line halt supplies to the entire east coast.

Shipping lines cut deliveries amid wharf war

Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter is backing a bid to stop wharfies' industrial action as shipping lines restrict deliveries of vital goods because of delays.

  • David Marin-Guzman
The industrial action at Port Botany saw shipping giant Maersk announce it would no longer supply Sydney.

Union ceasefire over waterfront strike

Stevedores have warned that delays are set to get worse at Port Botany despite the wharfies' union pulling all its industrial action at DP World in the wake of legal action.

  • David Marin-Guzman
MUA Sydney secretary Paul McAleer with workers at Port Botany at the start of a four-hour stoppage on Friday.

Shipping giant stops Sydney imports on wharfie dispute

The world's largest shipping line has stopped imports arriving in Sydney for at least two weeks because of the wharfies industrial action at Port Botany.

  • David Marin-Guzman
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Port Botany go-slow orders to create supply delays

Wharfies are set to escalate industrial action at Sydney's already gridlocked port this week in a major dispute that will hit all three major stevedores.

  • David Marin-Guzman

May 2020

MUA national secretary Paddy Crumlin said the discovery was "extremely serious".

Union investigates own officials for bugging headquarters

The maritime union has discovered a listening device at its Queensland offices, sparking interrogations of staff and officials.

  • David Marin-Guzman

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