Setka scandal
What did John Setka do next? Get a tattoo
The fallen trade unionist has used the medium of ink on skin to issue a defiant message.
- by Stephen Brook
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No, Brighton, Geoffrey Robertson is not buying a mansion for Julian Assange
The Brighton jungle drums are beating hard. But the famed human rights lawyer is not in the real estate business.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Letters
Letters
Attacks on political leaders happen in Australia too
The assassination attempt on Donald Trump prompts readers to discuss the threat of political violence in Australia.
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
Letters
Letters
Australia is nothing like America, is it?
Readers ask whether the extremes of American political life will infiltrate Australian culture.
Indigenous justice commission to probe worksite allegations amid CFMEU fallout
Premier Jacinta Allan has also confirmed that the Victorian Labor Party had begun formal processes to eject the CFMEU’s construction division from its ranks.
- by Broede Carmody and Kieran Rooney
Opinion
Building Bad
I witnessed the rot set in at the CFMEU. Here’s how it happened
When John Setka and his band took control, muscle became everything – no matter where the muscle came from.
- by John Sutton
Letters
Letters
Trump assassination attempt was all too predictable
Readers wonder why America can be shocked by the attempt on Trump’s life given the country’s history of political assassinations, gun deaths and its constitutional right to bear arms.
Updated
Building Bad
‘Good’: Albanese welcomes Setka resignation amid calls for CFMEU probe
Amid allegations that senior bikie figures and criminals have been handed lucrative union roles on government-funded projects, the PM said the former union boss’s alleged behaviour should be condemned, isolated and stamped out.
- by Annika Smethurst, Harriet Alexander and Anthony Segaert
Meet the comedy team getting a green light to break road rules
The government has given special permission to a television comedy to break most of the road rules.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Domestic violence
John Setka’s estranged wife sues police over handling of domestic violence allegations
Prominent former lawyer Emma Walters alleges police failed to protect her safety after she made multiple family violence claims against the CFMEU union leader.
- by Ben Schneiders
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