Overview
- AWU state secretary Stacey Schinnerl testified that she and colleagues endured threats, stalking and a perceived death threat as tensions escalated on major civil works sites.
- She described a 2023 Labour Day confrontation in front of her child and said masked CFMEU members blocked an AWU delegate at Brisbane’s Cross River Rail tunnel.
- Witnesses detailed a police–industrial relations memorandum that allegedly enabled CFMEU site access without permits and curtailed police responses, with the regulator contact described as having a close personal relationship with former CFMEU president Royce Kupsch.
- QCU leader Jacqueline King said contractors reported daily blockades, stalking and tracking devices on vehicles, and she recounted fruitless appeals to senior police under the disputed arrangement.
- Former leaders Michael Ravbar and Jade Ingham are accused of pushing into AWU territory and leveraging policy processes, they reject the allegations, and the CFMEU remains under federal administration with hearings to resume in 2026 ahead of a final report due before August.