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Federal Court documents show hundreds of messages the financial regulator will rely on in its case against Michael O’Connor, the national secretary of CFMEU’s manufacturing division.

Messages show how powerful union slugged workers’ retirement savings

When a $2.4 million contract between the CFMEU and industry fund First Super was up for renewal, a long-serving union secretary allegedly saw a profitable opportunity.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey

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CFMEU members protest outside Parliament House in Canberra earlier this month.

I’m no fan of John Setka. But he’s right about one thing

John Setka deserved to lose his job at the CFMEU, but when he decries a lack of political accountability in the union construction scandal, he’s right.

  • Nick McKenzie

New body to help clean up construction, but industry says it’s not nearly enough

A Victorian government report in response to this masthead’s Building Bad investigation says builders should be contractually required to stamp out criminal behaviour.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
A rally protesting CFMEU administration, at the front of Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 10 December 2024.

Union opens door to shifting donations from Labor to Greens

The bitter split within the union movement over the CFMEU being placed into administration came to Parliament House and the High Court on Tuesday.

  • James Massola
A man was struck by a ute on an east Brisbane worksite on Tuesday, suffering life-threatening injuries.

Man run over by ute on Brisbane worksite may lose leg

Authorities and the union have launched investigations after the worker suffered life-threatening injuries on the Pinkenba worksite.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Administrator Marking Irving, centre, has been forced to hire private security as he faces pressure, and danger, in his task to clean-up the CFMEU.

Death threats and private security, life in a CFMEU under administration

Does the administrator appointed to overhaul the union have the ‘guts’ to withstand the powerful forces trying to bring him down? Nick McKenzie thinks so.

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An alleged bashing was caught on CCTV.

Bikies ran amok in the CFMEU, and they’re not going to leave quietly

Efforts to clean up the troubled union are encountering resistance as the extent of past problems becomes clearer.

  • Nick McKenzie and Cara Waters
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 CFMEU flag raised in Melbourne.

CFMEU scrambles security to headquarters after threats against officials

Administrators of the CFMEU are responding to warnings that violent bikies and crime figures ostracised from the union are turning on remaining organisers.

  • Nick McKenzie
Senator Fatima Payman.

Fatima Payman to speak at event supporting scandal-plagued CFMEU

Former Labor senator Fatima Payman has joined forces with CFMEU rebels fighting the union being put into administration, prompting the government to demand she rule out taking money from embattled construction figures.

  • Paul Sakkal and Kieran Rooney

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