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Members of the CFMEU protesting in Brisbane last month.

‘Shocked’ Labor calls in corruption watchdog over CFMEU report

Opposition Leader Steven Miles says Labor’s plan to investigate the union would be timely and cost-effective amid wider calls for a commission of inquiry.

  • William Davis

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers, ACTU secretary Sally McManus.

Unions say index super tax hit to protect ordinary workers

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is under pressure from the union movement to overhaul his proposed hit on wealthy superannuation account holders.

  • Shane Wright
Judy Mundey looks up at a mural that shows her late husband Jack Mundey - in the upper right with a loudspeaker - a leader of the Builders Labourer Federation and the green ban movement which saved the ’Loo for working-class people and defeated a proposal for highrise.

These murals honour Sydney’s hero of heritage. Will they be preserved themselves?

Murals depicting the Woolloomooloo community joining unions to save the historic area from development are fading. And not everyone wants them repainted.

  • Julie Power
Greg Combet

Greg Combet: Julia Gillard sounded me out on the leadership. I made the right call

Greg Combet was not born on the wrong side of the tracks. In 1960s Rooty Hill, there weren’t any tracks at all.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Workplace Minister Murray Watt.

Workers who steal from their boss can be charged with theft. Now dishonest employers risk jail, fines

Landmark wage theft laws that come into effect on January 1 will make intentional underpayment of workers a crime across the nation.

  • Olivia Ireland
(Clockwise from top left): Briony Scott, Jelena Dokic, Sally McManus,  Ita Buttrose 

The best bits of Fitz. My best chats of 2024

This year, I published 46 interviews in this space. These are the exchanges that most resonated with you, or most moved me, or turned out to be particularly prescient.

  • Peter FitzSimons
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The government installed an administrator in August to run the scandal-plagued union.

How the CFMEU scandal unfolded

Our reporting in the Building Bad series, now acknowledged with a Gold Walkley, came after work over 18 years by investigative journalists.

  • Mathew Dunckley and Michael Bachelard
The lap top at home became a way of life.

Yes, your boss is spying on you. Should there be a watchdog on that?

The ACTU is set on changing the regulation of worker surveillance, calling for a national AI authority that co-ordinates with government to protect workers.

  • Olivia Ireland
CFMEU administrator Mark Irving, KC, in his chambers on September 5.

‘Imminent death threat’: CFMEU administrator targeted as union schism deepens

Police have warned the CFMEU administrator of an imminent death threat, as the labour movement ruptures over the federal government’s efforts to stamp out criminality in the building industry.

  • Nick McKenzie and Kieran Rooney
ACTU secretary Sally McManus avoids going out after the CFMEU fallout.

Black belt Sally McManus stares down safety threats from CFMEU fallout

Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus says she has changed her routines, lives between different locations and has taken police advice.

  • Olivia Ireland

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