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Don Johnson, who held roles at CPB until early this year – including as executive general manager from 2018, along with chief operating officer from 2022 – appeared before the inquiry on Thursday.

State role ‘swayed the negotiating balance’ in Cross River Rail talks

Former CPB executive Don Johnson also told a Queensland inquiry the contractor “had to” hire CFMEU safety reps to end the union’s 2023 project lockdown.

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Cross River Rail Delivery Authority chief executive Graeme Newton gave during his day-and-a-half in the Queensland CFMEU inquiry witness box this week.

How the CFMEU tried to, and did, influence Qld’s biggest rail project

Cross River Rail boss Graeme Newton has told a state inquiry of the union’s extensive pressure campaign, including the early sidelining of a key internal critic.

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Former Queensland treasurer Jackie Trad.

Jackie Trad’s new CEO role unveiled

The former Queensland deputy premier will take over as the boss of the industry lobby group, the Clean Energy Council.

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Then-deputy premier Jackie Trad in late 2018.

Trad slams ‘petty’ release of report into her conduct with bureaucrat

As treasurer, Jackie Trad bullied Annastacia Palaszczuk’s top bureaucrat to have a “friend” put in charge of the budget, the Crime and Corruption Commission found.

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Jackie Trad

Trad must hand back CCC cash to state after legal win

While the final taxpayer bill for the secretive legal fight is finalised, the government remains coy about plans to answer key anti-corruption agency questions.

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Former deputy premier Jackie Trad campaigning in her seat of South Brisbane before the 2020 state election, which she ultimately lost to now Greens MP Amy MacMahon.

Former deputy premier wins bid to gag CCC report

Jackie Trad released her first lengthy public statement about the case, saying the corruption probe had a significant impact on her life, both political and personal.

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Members of the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission appear at a public meeting of the Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee on Friday, September 15, after the dismissal of an appeal to the High Court to publish a report on an investigation into former public trustee Peter Carne.

Carne and Trad reports should be public, anti-corruption boss says

After a court muzzled the public reporting of Queensland’s corruption watchdog, its boss says a parliamentary body might still have the power in one case.

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Employment Minister Shannon Fentiman and Treasurer Jackie Trad have announced that the payroll tax would be deferred for some businesses in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. 

A-G approved taxpayer funding for Jackie Trad’s legal fight against CCC

After the further detail was revealed on Wednesday, the shadow attorney-general questioned why the scheme was used as a “sword, not a shield”.

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Then-deputy premier Jackie Trad in late 2018. The CCC has revealed it has spent more than $74,000 on external legal fees fighting court action brought by Trad in May last year.

Qld Labor MPs relent and release CCC’s legal costs in secretive Trad case

A parliamentary committee has revealed part of the costs taxpayers have incurred in court action by former deputy premier Jackie Trad against the anti-corruption watchdog.

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Former deputy premier Jackie Trad campaigning in her seat of South Brisbane before the 2020 state election, which she ultimately lost to now Greens MP Amy MacMahon.

Four Labor no-shows thwart LNP effort to air Trad saga details

The majority of a powerful committee have failed to show at a public meeting where they would have had to again vote on releasing corruption watchdog details about its costs in ongoing court action by the former deputy premier.

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