A report by esteemed integrity expert Geoffrey Watson SC has found:
There is no doubt the government knew... but it is equally clear that the government did nothing about it.
Extraordinarily, the report also finds $15 billion of Victorian taxpayer funds have ended up in the hands of bikies and organised crime figures.
This is the equivalent of over $5,000 for every Victorian household - a morally indefensible waste of taxpayer money.
$15 billion could pay for over 130,000 police officers, nurses or teachers.
This shocking waste is why Labor has closed dozens of police stations, why it takes 5 minutes longer to get an ambulance today than a decade ago and why Victoria has the lowest funded public schools in the nation.
The CFMEU has underpinned Premier Jacinta Allan's factional powerbase within the Labor Party for decades and sponsored her ascension to the Premiership.
Clearly, as Minister for Transport Infrastructure and now Premier, she has been utterly compromised in her ability to take action against the CFMEU.
She cannot continue to deny knowledge or fail to take responsibility.
Premier Jacinta Allan must front up today and explain why she placed her own personal political interests above her duties as Minister and Premier - and tell Victorians why crooks and bikies have been allowed to get their hands on $15 billion in taxpayer funds.
Only a Wilson Liberals and Nationals Government will clean up taxpayer funded Big Build sites by establishing a Royal Commission into CFMEU misconduct and a new industry watchdog, Construction Enforcement Victoria.
