The CFMEU has cost Victorian taxpayers $15bn, a corruption fighter claims
Guardian Australia
Geoffrey Watson SC report "Rotting from the Top" (for CFMEU administrator Mark Irving KC) alleged the Victorian branch "was no longer a trade union, it was a crime syndicate"; uniquely Victorian problem tied to the $100bn Big Build from 2015; Redacted chapters: government "knew and had a duty to know" but did "nothing"
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“consistent with what I've heard from officials from the Victorian government”
“was no longer a trade union, it was a crime syndicate”
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