‘Nobody from the Labor party has contacted me’ about $15bn CFMEU corruption claim, expert says

An integrity expert estimates that corruption in Australia's construction union has cost taxpayers at least fifteen billion dollars. Geoffrey Watson SC's report, 'Rotting from the Top,' was submitted to a Queensland inquiry in February—and Watson tells The Guardian that nobody from the Victorian Labor government has contacted him about the findings. The union's current administrator is warning that criminality still exists on construction sites.

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