Elements in today’s CFMEU story can be traced back to the unlikely locale of Kelly’s Bush in the leafy Sydney suburb of Hunters Hill.
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“He ran into me (sic) fist.”
The speaker was straddling a bar stool with his ample buttocks in Melbourne’s John Curtin Hotel, opposite the Trades Hall. He wasn’t so much holding a glass of beer, as strangling it with one hand.
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