Yesterday
Cbus’ executives turn over but CFMEU directors are eternal
The rumours were true: acting chief risk officer Belinda Langdon did leave $90 billion fund in May. Hers follows a string of departures.
- Nick Bonyhady
This Month
- Exclusive
- Building Bad
CFMEU put Bandidos bikie on its governing board
Marty Albert was a union organiser on Victorian government construction projects and held a senior position in the John Setka-led branch of the CFMEU.
- David Marin-Guzman and Nick McKenzie
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Let the CFMEU purge itself of the criminal, corrupt, and violent
Rather than politicised building codes, the best way to clean up the law-breaking is to empower legitimate officials who understand that a union’s special legal status comes with moral responsibility.
- Updated
- Scott Riches
Fair Work names CFMEU administrator, seeks extraordinary powers
The FWC has chosen a senior barrister to administer the union and wants to give him sweeping powers to follow dirty money and sack officials. The CFMEU says it’s taking legal advice.
- Updated
- Nick McKenzie, David Marin-Guzman, Ben Schneiders and James Hall
July
John Setka – finally – leaves Incolink
No individual is bigger than the union, but Setka thought he was bigger than a CFMEU redundancy fund for a while.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Building Bad
How to burst the CFMEU’s balloon for good
Press the construction union, and it simply bulges up somewhere else. More tools are needed if the union’s long-term culture is to change.
- Peter Richards
- Opinion
- Building Bad
Albanese is responsible for the monster that is the CFMEU
A friendly political environment created by the Labor government allows the lawless union to thrive.
- Aaron Patrick
- Analysis
- Building Bad
Lendlease’s convenient, lucrative alliance with the CFMEU
Allegations of wrongdoing on construction sites raise the question: Do big contractors enable and profit from union thuggery?
- Aaron Patrick
Albanese digs in amid calls for tougher action against CFMEU
PM says the ABCC failed to curb union militancy when it existed, and that the police were best placed to combat criminal behaviour.
- Phillip Coorey
Construction watchdog should be reinstated, AFR readers say
The Albanese government should reinstate a federal construction watchdog and hold a royal commission into the CFMEU, according to an AFR reader poll.
- Gus McCubbing
- Exclusive
- Building Bad
‘Complete joke’: Former building cops urge ABCC’s return
Two former building watchdogs have rubbished claims Labor governments were unaware of behaviour inside the CFMEU: “Thuggery and standover tactics have prevailed for decades.”
- Updated
- Phillip Coorey, Ronald Mizen and Gus McCubbing
- Investigation
- Building Bad
The footballer, the underworld and the union deal
When Faruk Orman and ex-AFL player Kayne Pettifer aligned to secure a firm with CFMEU support, it was a case study in underworld figures monetising union backing.
- Nick McKenzie and David Marin-Guzman
‘We won’t be lectured by Dutton on CFMEU’: Albanese says
The opposition leader has vowed to deregister the union and reinstate the Coalition’s union watchdog.
- Phillip Coorey
Bikie delegates axed as CFMEU scrambles to fight back
Sources say the Labor government is struggling to find someone willing to take on external administration of the CFMEU, a move it is desperately trying to fend off.
- David Marin-Guzman, Gus McCubbing and Phillip Coorey
Dutton puts CFMEU’s future on the election agenda
Peter Dutton has made the future of the CFMEU an election issue by pledging to deregister the union if he wins office, as well as re-establishing the construction industry watchdog.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Building Bad
On CFMEU, Albo must emulate Hawke
The union must be deregistered, and government construction contracts must once again be used to ensure that unacceptable union behaviour is not tolerated.
- Roger Gyles
- Opinion
- The AFR View
CFMEU’s industrial power has corrupted
The scale of the systemic wrongdoing that has been uncovered demands a fuller judicial inquiry that must also probe the institutional enablers of the CFMEU’s crimes.
- The AFR View
The ties that bind John Setka to Cbus and the ALP
With the CFMEU now in a spotlight so bright even the indestructible John Setka couldn’t ride it out, ties like these drag everyone else into the glare.
- Myriam Robin
- Updated
- Building Bad
CFMEU crackdown doesn’t go far enough
Business groups are demanding an inquiry into the CFMEU’s alleged criminal activities and the return of a permanent independent regulator.
- Phillip Coorey and David Marin-Guzman
- Investigation
- Building Bad
CFMEU boss caught on covert camera allegedly taking a cash bribe
A police lens hidden in the roof of the union’s Sydney office is said to have captured Darren Greenfield being passed money in a suspected kickback deal.
- Nick McKenzie, David Marin-Guzman and Ben Schneiders
