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ETU president Glen Potter in 2020.

NSW union boss charged after 167 guns allegedly found strewn across his home

Sydney Trains employee Glen Potter has held one of the most senior roles the NSW Electrical Trades Union for almost two decades.

  • Alexandra Smith

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Counsel assisting the inquiry Patrick Wheelahan and Commissioner Stuart Wood outside a traffic management company on the Gold Coast.

CFMEU inquiry calls for details on potential Gatto-linked traffic firm

Inquiry figures held a media conference outside a traffic equipment supplier on the Gold Coast, urging anyone with information to come forward.

  • Matt Dennien
Premier Jacinta Allan again rebuffed calls to expand the corruption watchdog’s powers.

Watchdog lashes Victoria’s Big Build agency over ‘poor’ records

Asked to investigate allegations of misconduct, the ombudsman was stymied by lax record-keeping around spending at the agency managing the state’s $100 billion infrastructure program.

  • Nick McKenzie and Kieran Rooney
A bribery plot is seen as part of a broader attempt to undermine the CFMEU administration.

$50,000 in an envelope: Bribe allegedly offered to withdraw intimidation claim

Sydney crime figures are suspected to be behind the plot that was allegedly aimed at silencing a victim of a building industry standover racket.

  • Nick McKenzie
Qantas Airways suffered a data breach in July and the hackers demanded $1 million.

Qantas, union at loggerheads over job security in AI-era

The ASU wants to know whether a tranche of job cuts related to technology improvements are the first of a multi-tranche redundancy plan.

  • Chris Zappone
Cheryl Soafkin and her son Jeremy, 37, who lives with severe autism. For 17 years, Jeremy has lived in a disability group home in Camberwell, which will soon be closed by its operator, Scope.

‘They’re gaslighting us’: More disability homes close as state funding ends

More than 80 group homes for disabled residents have closed, upending the lives of some of Victoria’s most vulnerable people.

  • Grant McArthur and Kieran Rooney
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The Amazon fulfilment centre in Ravenhall.

‘Social licence for unacceptable behaviour’: Amazon warehouse tours ruffle union feathers

Members of the public said they enjoyed the guided activity, which has drawn criticism from the warehouse and shop workers union.

  • Gemma Grant
From left: Plumbers union boss Earl Setches, Firefighters union chief Peter Marshall and Mick Gatto.

Rot on the yacht: Gatto throws a labour party on celeb’s yacht

Gangland figure Mick Gatto has been filmed sipping champagne with union powerbrokers as the CFMEU scandal rages and amid major questions for superannuation giant CBUS.

  • Nick McKenzie and Kieran Rooney
The Fair Work Commission has released documents detailing complaints about the CFMEU on public projects.

The 1000 ways the CFMEU has provoked outrage on nation’s building sites

Hotline records from workers around the country, but particularly on Victoria’s Big Build, detail threats, corruption and favouritism on taxpayer-funded sites.

  • Kieran Rooney and Nick McKenzie
Australian Education Union Victorian branch president Justin Mullaly leads a teachers protest at Ben Carroll’s office in Niddrie. 19 June 2025.

State school teachers threaten to strike as pay talks stall

The teachers’ union says members will stay home from 1600 government schools next month without concessions from the state government on pay.

  • Noel Towell and Jackson Graham