‘Everything on the table’:Burke weighs deregistration of CFMEU construction division amid revelations

‘Everything on the table’:Burke weighs deregistration of CFMEU construction division amid revelations

Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has threatened deregistration if the union doesn’t clean house.

  • byJames Massola andAnnika Smethurst

Latest

Building Bad
Investigation
Building Bad

Building Bad

A months-long investigation into the CFMEU has uncovered infiltration by bikies and organised criminals,intimidation and allegations of corruption.

35stories
‘Leo the dog’:Setka caught on tape delivering threatening message to rival’s home
Exclusive
Building Bad

‘Leo the dog’:Setka caught on tape delivering threatening message to rival’s home

Video of the former union chief’s night-time visit emerges,plus other officials filmed in abusive tirade on $761 million government project.

  • byNick McKenzie,Ben Schneiders,David Marin-Guzman andReid Butler
Building bad:How bikies,underworld have become a construction industry ‘cancer’
Exclusive
Building Bad

Building bad:How bikies,underworld have become a construction industry ‘cancer’

A months-long investigation featuring secret surveillance reveals how bikies,criminals and underworld figures have infiltrated the building industry,including on large publicly funded projects.

  • byNick McKenzie,David Marin-Guzman andBen Schneiders
Australian drug smuggling suspects right at home as Dubai makes world’s worst welcome

Australian drug smuggling suspects right at home as Dubai makes world’s worst welcome

A mega-leak of property records reveals how suspected drug traffickers and other criminals call the United Arab Emirates a safe haven as the Gulf state looks the other way.

  • byNick McKenzie andAmelia Ballinger
A drive-by shooting and two flaming cars:The Sydney street under siege

A drive-by shooting and two flaming cars:The Sydney street under siege

A shooting and two suspected arson attacks have a suburban Sydney street on edge as police investigate suspected outlaw motorcycle gang links.

  • byPerry Duffin
Advertisement
Rape charges against Perth bikie Troy Mercanti dropped

Rape charges against Perth bikie Troy Mercanti dropped

A woman who claimed Troy Mercanti assaulted and raped her after a night out in Northbridge has withdrawn her accusations,forcing the police to drop the charges.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt
Slain bikie boss’ widow sues WA government,hitman after witnessing assassination

Slain bikie boss’ widow sues WA government,hitman after witnessing assassination

Amanda Martin and her daughter filed a lawsuit in the Perth District Court for “damages by way of mental harm suffered” from witnessing Nick Martin be shot by a sniper.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt andHeather McNeill
‘It’s like the Bronx’:Drummoyne becomes unlikely focus of city’s drug war

‘It’s like the Bronx’:Drummoyne becomes unlikely focus of city’s drug war

The tentacles of Sydney’s multibillion-dollar drug war have reached the affluent waterfront suburb,where locals walking dogs have been approached by the “security” of alleged criminal gangs.

  • byClare Sibthorpe
Multiple Perth bikies charged after dramatic police raids

Multiple Perth bikies charged after dramatic police raids

Eight members of a notorious bikie gang in Western Australia have been arrested and charged over serious offending.

  • byHolly Thompson
‘She knew too much’:Ex-bikie watched woman ‘killed with baseball bat’
Graphic content
Crime

‘She knew too much’:Ex-bikie watched woman ‘killed with baseball bat’

The bikie-turned-drug dealer said he was frozen in horror watching an associate allegedly murder the woman at a quarry outside Sydney.

  • byPerry Duffin