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There are more than 40 ongoing investigations into CFMEU officials.

Setka stack fears as Greens stand to win big from Labor-union split

Labor’s decision to put the construction union into administration has triggered a revolt within a significant part of the union movement.

  • Paul Sakkal and Kieran Rooney

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Former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty.

‘It’s a delusion’: Kelty hits back at Coalition call to deregister CFMEU

But the former ACTU secretary says the move to overhaul the CFMEU is justified by the need to protect the interests of ordinary members.

  • David Crowe and Angus Thompson
Former ACTU Secretary Bill Kelty.

Building union officials are the toughest people I know, but unity is a two-way street

It is regretful that the ACTU has had to take steps to suspend the CFMEU, but it had no choice if it wanted to protect the interests of working people.

  • Bill Kelty
Former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty says wages, overall, will not increase to match the projected 7 per cent inflation rate.

‘You’re chasing your tail’: Kelty warns against trying to outrun inflation with repeated wage rises

But the former ACTU boss has dismissed much of the talk of a looming wage-inflation spiral as “hyperbole”.

  • Angus Thompson
Bill Kelty says that as Victoria looks for a way out of the pandemic, the financial parameters have "fundamentally changed".

Premier has 'magic opportunity' to reshape state: Bill Kelty

Bill Kelty, the industrial consigliere behind some of Australia's most significant economic reforms, says Daniel Andrews can build a broad consensus for generational change.

  • Chip Le Grand

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  • Chris Wallace
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Bill Kelty speaks at the state memorial service for former prime minister Bob Hawke at the Sydney Opera House.

Bill Kelty tells memorial service how Bob Hawke fixed the economy

By allowing 40,000 Chinese to stay in the country following Tiananmen Square, Hawke put the knife into the white Australia policy, Bill Kelty said.

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Bob Hawke chats with former ACTU warrior Bill Kelty at Parliament House in 2011.

Bob Hawke saw unfinished business right up to the end, says Bill Kelty

The other partner in the reform project of the 1980s and 90s, ACTU secretary Bill Kelty, chokes back tears as he talks about his mate of 53 years.

  • Ben Schneiders
Bill Kelty

'They should be accountable': Labor legend tells Shorten to face up to Industry Super

Bill Kelty has warned the alternative prime minister he has a duty to protect workers' savings over the vested interests of "loud underperformers". 

  • Eryk Bagshaw

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