Nick Mckenzie
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 8, 2026
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Police raid Queensland CFMEU headquarters in cross-border operation (opens the original)
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Police are raiding the Queensland headquarters of the CFMEU in Brisbane as part of a cross-border operation involving Queensland and Victorian detectives and allegations that union officials were corrupted. The surprise raid was launched as part of a police operation led by Victoria’s Taskforce Hawk. According to information detailed in search warrants, authorities allege that CFMEU officials are involved in the federal crime of seeking to corrupt a member of a registered trade union. The co-ope
A desperation deal at Donnini’s meant a decade of paying Mick Gatto (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. When reports emerged linking his Big Build labour hire business to gangland veteran Mick Gatto, Melbourne businessman Tony Paragalli sought refuge in his safe space: his local footy club. Paragalli played as a junior and senior at Pascoe Vale, before becoming club president and secretary. He reckoned people around the club knew who he was and – after the news reports prompted further searing publi
‘Highly inappropriate’: Leaked trove reveals serious concerns at new-look Star (opens the original)
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Embattled gaming giant Star Entertainment is facing a fresh scandal, with leaked files revealing it has gutted its problem gambling programs, canvassed misleading casino financiers with an inflated financial forecast, and had to fire a senior executive 10 days after his hiring over contested allegations that he made grossly inappropriate comments. The internal correspondence detailing Star’s recent operations in NSW and Queensland lays bare serious internal concerns about underfunding of its pro
CFMEU headquarters raided in secret-commissions probe (opens the original)
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Two senior CFMEU officials temporarily detained by Victoria Police’s Taskforce Hawk after detectives swooped on the union’s Victorian headquarters on Monday have dismissed allegations of union corruption or kickbacks involving the former boss of a bikie gang. The arrest and release of five serving CFMEU officials by Taskforce Hawk on Monday, with two facing minor charges, marks the most dramatic intervention yet by the elite police unit launched to tackle suspected crime and corruption in Victor
Construction boss accused of plotting standover in secret sushi shop meeting with bikies (opens the original)
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A senior executive of Australian infrastructure giant BMD has been accused of secretly meeting violent members of a Melbourne bikie gang in a Brisbane sushi restaurant as part of a plot to threaten a CFMEU activist blamed for causing problems on an Albanese government-funded project. The revelations have prompted the Labor-backed CFMEU administrator, Michael Crosby, to issue a fresh call for government action to combat the “complete failure of the regulatory system” and to call on companies with
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