How the ‘Big Build’ corruption allegations brought down the Victorian premier

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan resigned this morning after corruption allegations engulfed her leadership. Per The Conversation, the so-called Big Build—a one hundred nine billion dollar infrastructure program—was infiltrated by organized crime and outlaw motorcycle gangs through the construction union, with investigators documenting extortion, fixed procurement deals, and ghost shifts. The alleged corruption has cost Victorian taxpayers around fifteen billion dollars. A briefing in June twenty twenty-three informed Allan, then transport minister, about this criminal infiltration, yet she later denied seeing the document, attributing cost overruns instead to inflation. Her expected successor backs a royal commission into the full scope of the corruption—something Allan had consistently rejected.

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