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CFMEU national president Jade Ingham is leading the rally.

High Court whisperer to lead CFMEU old guard’s challenge over new laws

Former CFMEU national president Jade Ingham said the union had been stolen from its members under “un-Australian” laws he would fight to overturn.

  • Olivia Ireland and Cameron Atfield

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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.

  • David Estcourt
John Setka and Sally McManus.

ACTU head Sally McManus silent on John Setka’s threats and insults

The militant unionist’s bid to oust former construction watchdog Stephen McBurney from his AFL job is backed in by his national CFMEU counterpart. But the ACTU chief refused to comment.

  • Angus Thompson and Andrew Wu

‘We can cause you grief’: Gatto’s words of warning to construction whistleblower

The underworld figure has long played a role in the building industry but rarely would people speak publicly about it, until now.

  • Nick McKenzie and David Marin-Guzman
Composite image of a Porter Davis Homes sign and former minister Danny Pearson.

Housing minister warned of risks months before Porter Davis collapse

Victoria’s housing minister failed to boost consumer protections despite receiving advice about reducing the risks for home building customers eight months before one of the state’s largest home builders collapsed.

  • Annika Smethurst
Lindsay Partridge, the boss of Brickworks, Australia’s largest brickmaking company.

High rates and crippling costs are making the housing shortage worse

Lindsay Partridge, who runs the country’s largest brick manufacturer Brickworks, reckons the RBA waited too long to raise rates and that’s hurting the construction sector.

  • Elizabeth Knight
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Enduring submersible speech writing

And cataloguing the donkey votes.

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From Stockholm with systematisation

But even applied science can’t tackle a Wet Leg.

Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke in parliament on Thursday.

‘Goliath is the unions’: Small business the new battleground as jobs bill passes lower house

Labor’s divisive industrial relations bill passed the lower house despite a wall of vocal opposition, indicating the looming Senate fight next month.

  • Angus Thompson
A secret April 2021 report found there were a range of workplace issues at the construction watchdog.

Government lawyers seek to block publication of report into ABCC workplace culture

A confidential staff survey of the building watchdog found it was racked by “contagious negative morale” and a “culture typified by active mistrust”.

  • Angus Thompson

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