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Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has been deflecting serious questions about corruption in the state’s Big Build projects.

Jacinta Allan has carefully suggested her government will tackle corruption. It won’t

The Victorian Labor Party sees union corruption and criminal infiltration of its Big Build as a lesser evil than giving IBAC the power and funding it needs to do its job.

  • Chip Le Grand

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Victoria failed to learn the lessons from the past and arm its corruption watchdog with teeth.

‘Norm’s a bit short’: The history lessons Victoria failed to learn

In 1981, it was $20,000 cash and a beach house. Today, it’s organised crime infiltrating the CFMEU – and a toothless watchdog. It’s time to fix it. John Silvester outlines how.

  • John Silvester
Jess Wilson has thrown herself into sharp media grabs skewering the decaying Allan government, but needs to show more substance.

US-style laws proposed to tackle Big Build corruption in Victoria

Opposition leader Jess Wilson has pledged to chase down corruption with anti-mafia powers if elected, as the Allan government dodged a vote on boosting powers for IBAC.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Premier Jacinta Allan, centre, at a building site for the Suburban Rail Loop.

Construction bosses say tougher laws needed to stop return of Building Bad

Former IBAC chief Alistair Maclean says he is “shocked” by the lack of resolve from government, the public service and integrity agencies to tackle corruption.

  • Chip Le Grand
Former premier Daniel Andrews, left, and Ombudsman Deborah Glass.

There are invisible strings that the powerful use to keep critics at bay

Keeping integrity agencies truly independent is more important than ever. More often than not, they are controlled by the very government the agency is appointed to oversee.

  • Deborah Glass
Police Minister Anthony Carbines has attacked integrity expert and barrister Geoffrey Watson.

CFMEU fight threatens to engulf hate speech bill as ministers launch broadside on corruption buster

The Coalition says the government will delay its own anti-hate speech reforms rather than let the Greens add an amendment to boost IBAC’s powers.

  • Daniella White
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Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan on Tuesday with colleagues who were invited to defend the handling of the CFMEU scandal.

Allan promoted her IBAC action on CFMEU, knowing it wasn’t going to do anything

The premier cited her letter to the watchdog as proof she was acting on the Big Build graft scandal, but already knew it was powerless to investigate claims about the union.

  • Kieran Rooney, Rachel Eddie and Nick McKenzie
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan with several members of her government who were invited to defend the handling of the CFMEU scandal.

What about the utes and jet-skis?: Construction company donor’s spray

As the premier faced a feisty press conference, a donor company under scrutiny has made startling allegations of corruption.

  • Kieran Rooney, Nick McKenzie and Rachel Eddie
Records show firms with suspect links donated thousands of dollars to Labor’s 2022 election campaign.

Big Build’s dirty money: How gangland, bikie-linked firms funded Labor

Records show a collection of companies now under scrutiny, some from law enforcement, helped fund Labor’s 2022 election victory.

  • Nick McKenzie, Kieran Rooney and Erin Pearson
CFMEU administrator Mark Irving (right) and corruption-busting lawyer Geoffrey Watson, SC.

Allan releases CFMEU letter as opposition says its royal commission would include government culpability

The government remains steadfast in its belief that the alleged rampant corruption on Big Build worksites has not led to a $15 billion budget blowout as alleged by an expert.

  • Kieran Rooney