Building Bad by Anonymous - ISBN: 9780733655265
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Union corruption: bikie links, blackmail, and rorts exposed.
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Building Bad

The explosive inside story of the CFMEU

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    27 October 2026

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Summary

The shocking story of corruption, violence and organised crime inside the CMFEU

In 2024, the spotlight fell on the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), and specifically the Victorian branch. Whistleblowers and witnesses pointed to the union’s sinister links with outlaw bikie gangs and underworld figures. Walkley Award-winning journalists Nick McKenzie and Ben Schneiders joined forces to dig deeper and together they uncovered evidence of blackma…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780733655265
ISBN-10:0733655262
Author:Anonymous
Publisher:Hachette Australia
Imprint:Hachette Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:27 October 2026
Weight:300g
About The Author

Anonymous

Nick McKenzie is one of the nation’s most decorated investigative journalists, having been named Australian Journalist of the Year on four separate occasions. Over two decades, he has worked for the ABC’s Four Corners program, Nine’s 60 Minutes, and The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers. His reporting spans politics, defence, foreign affairs, the criminal justice system, corporate crime, and social affairs. He has been awarded the Walkley, Australia’s highest journalism award, a record twenty times. His bestselling book, Crossing the Line, was published in 2023.

Ben Schneiders is a Gold Walkley award-winning investigative journalist who has reported extensively on wage theft, corruption, business, politics, and the labour movement. He previously worked for nearly twenty years at The Age as an investigative reporter and editor, winning multiple Walkley awards, and was also a four-time winner of the Industrial Relations reporting award. His first book, Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality, was published in 2022.

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