John Setka
Setka has received death threats, court told
The embattled former unionist says he’s “happy” about the threats.
- Tara Cosoleto
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- Building Bad
Controversial Women in Construction firm had rates 20% higher than competitors. It was still hired
Officials were alerted to price-gouging by a labour-hire firm claiming to be a women-led supplier of female workers, which was, in fact, owned by a male serial domestic violence abuser.
- Nick McKenzie, Kieran Rooney and Chip Le Grand
Bandidos bikie gang president charged with blackmail after cash found at his home
Napoleon Brown, 32, on Wednesday became the sixth suspected underworld-linked figure charged by Taskforce Hawk over an alleged extortion plot.
- Nick McKenzie
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- Building Bad
Setka charged with harassing a CFMEU administrator
The disgraced former union boss is facing fresh criminal charges over allegations he issued a Christmas Day threat to an official from the union’s administration.
- Alexander Darling and Mathew Dunckley
- Editorial
- Building Bad
Allan’s CFMEU stonewalling is a failure of leadership
The past week’s CFMEU revelations have shocked Victorians. They deserve to know how the state ended up paying billions to bikies.
- The Age's View
Fake names and a $2m transfer: How the CFMEU’s forerunner did business in the 1980s
Newly released cabinet papers detail the guerrilla tactics of the Builders Labourers Federation, and reveal brazen actions that mirror those plaguing Victoria today.
- Kieran Rooney
- Opinion
- CFMEU
I was John Setka’s right-hand man. The CFMEU can be a shining light again
The CFMEU sits rudderless and divided by internal conflicts. It doesn’t have to be this way.
- Shaun Reardon
Man now accused of murder drove officials to Watson probe, CFMEU inquiry told
The commission of inquiry’s first day has heard new revelations about the CFMEU and that the scandal-plagued union “revelled” in its outlaw notoriety.
- Matt Dennien and James Hall
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- Building Bad
‘No one is bigger than the union’: CFMEU chief swings axe in cleanout
The CFMEU has flagged the moves as part of reforms to the union’s scandal-tainted Victorian branch.
- Nick McKenzie
Setka-era CFMEU secretly donated $329,000 to embattled unionist, watchdog finds
The Fair Work Commission said it was likely senior CFMEU officers had tried to hide the extent of their donations to Diana Asmar from the union’s leadership.
- Kieran Rooney and Nick McKenzie