Overview
- Public hearings on June 16–17 produced evidence that CFMEU Queensland used donated funds to pay personal fines and payment orders totalling more than $156,000, including a $30,000 fine for former official Beau Seiffert.
- Counsel assisting the inquiry said the union ran concealed ‘financial shadow operations’ that monetised enterprise bargaining agreements to generate recurring income and occasional large one‑off payments.
- The commission was told the union received $8.8 million from the Queen’s Wharf Brisbane enterprise agreement in 2025 as an example of revenue produced through those agreements.
- Forensic accounting testimony described inter‑branch accounting anomalies, shared ledgers and a contested $7.95 million ‘defence fund’ that both state and federal CFMEU bodies at times claimed.
- The public inquiry has called international criminologists and financial experts to probe whether the practices breached tax, industrial and trust rules and its final report is now due in December 2027.