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Cbus, chaired by Wayne Swan (left), was unable to demonstrate its controversial relationship with the CFMEU (pictured right, former Victorian CFMEU secretary John Setka) was in members’ best financial interest.

Senate committee orders Wayne Swan to explain ‘discrepancies’

Cbus’ chair will be asked to clarify “gaping holes” in his testimony last week following the release of an independent inquiry examining corporate governance failures at the fund.  

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey

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Wayne Swan appeared before a Senate committee on Friday morning.

Wayne Swan defends controversial CFMEU appointments to Cbus board

The super giant’s chairman was hauled before a Senate committee, where he was grilled over the governance failings engulfing the embattled fund.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
CFMEU national boss Paddy Crumlin’s Cbus board nomination has been accepted.

Cbus board appointments prompts tough talk from APRA

The regulator has raised doubts over whether Cbus has completed the necessary processes under its licence conditions, after the fund said three CFMEU-linked directors had passed a fit and proper persons test and would be appointed to its board.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Paddy Crumlin has been appointed to the board of Cbus.

Union firebrand Paddy Crumlin among three directors nominated for Cbus board

The administrator of the trouble-plagued CFMEU has nominated three directors to the $94 billion superannuation fund Cbus.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Industrial action between maritime workers and Patrick Terminals is on hold.

Government could intervene in wharf disputes ahead of Christmas

Prime Minister Scott Morrison also foreshadowed a Productivity Commission inquiry into the running of Australia’s ports, warning “inefficient ports are a tax on all of us”.

  • Angus Thompson and Nick Bonyhady
Patrick CEO Michael Jovicic said the company was hamstrung by the union.

Patrick stevedores applies to tear up pay deal for more than 1000 wharfies

National stevedoring company Patrick wants to tear up its pay agreement for more than 1000 workers, escalating their dispute ahead of Christmas deliveries.

  • Nick Bonyhady
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Clive Palmer.

Palmer’s party goes round and round

First it was the United Australia Party, then the Palmer United Party, now it’s Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party. Where to next?

  • Nick Bonyhady and Stephen Brook
CFMMEU national secretary Michael O'Connor is resigning from his role at the "totally dysfunctional" union.

Divide deepens at CFMMEU union after leader steps down

A national split in the peak construction and mining union is set to deepen on Friday as a division chief at the powerful CFMEU rejects a bid to name a new leader.

  • David Crowe and Nick Bonyhady
Michael Kaine, National Secretary of the TWU and Michele O'Neil, President of the ACTU during a rally calling for airport workers to have access to JobKeeper in June 2020.

2020 was supposed to be a big year for unions. Then the pandemic hit

The Transport Workers Union had been planning a year of industrial action since 2017. The maritime union also had the year planned out. But 2020 didn't go to plan.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Patrick CEO Michael Jovicic, overlooking Port Botany, says a union dispute is delaying containers.

Retailers warn of Christmas shortages as docks dispute drives container backlog

More than 100,000 containers at major ports across the country are caught up in a waterfront dispute, but the union says it's not their fault.

  • Rob Harris

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