Sally McManus
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
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.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Latest
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.
- by Olivia Ireland
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.
- by Olivia Ireland
Analysis
Building Bad
The backers who allowed John Setka’s rise to ultimate power
Five years ago, the head of Australia’s union movement demanded Setka’s resignation. What happened next allowed him to not only survive, but thrive.
- by Ben Schneiders
Exclusive
Building Bad
Labor-linked judge in government sights to take over CFMEU
Three sources familiar with conversations inside the government and union movement said NSW Supreme Court Justice Stephen Rothman was among candidates being discussed as a potential administrator.
- by Paul Sakkal, Angus Thompson and Ben Schneiders
Updated
Building Bad
Union to go to war over bid to stamp out CFMEU corruption
Union officials have vowed to fight “to the ends of the earth” against federal government moves to appoint an administrator to oversee the scandal-plagued CFMEU.
- by David Crowe, Angus Thompson and Paul Sakkal
Queensland union boss lashes out at Labor governments over CFMEU probe
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had “panicked and soiled himself over some unproven allegations”, according to Queensland CFMEU boss Michael Ravbar.
- by Tony Moore
Analysis
Building Bad
This is not the time to flinch on union corruption
Will Labor look after households or protect its friends in the union movement? One way to tell will be whether it forces tainted officials out the door.
- by David Crowe
Corruption, crooks and kickback offers: What we know about the CFMEU scandal so far
The fallout from our investigation into the powerful construction union began on Friday, when long-time union boss John Setka resigned, before the first story had even been published.
- by David Estcourt
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Trade unions
The CFMEU boss, a wad of cash and a hidden camera: New pictures reveal covert police operation
A police camera hidden in the ceiling of the CFMEU’s Sydney office allegedly captured NSW construction union boss Darren Greenfield being passed a $5000 bundle of cash.
- by Nick McKenzie, David Marin-Guzman and Ben Schneiders
Exclusive
Building Bad
Labor executive set to ban donations from Victorian CFMEU
The move is an attempt to cauterise the political damage over revelations of underworld infiltration into the scandal-plagued construction union.
- by Angus Thompson and Paul Sakkal
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