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Victoria's Big Build inquiry hears CFMEU threatened to 'smash' subcontractor

The commission heard that contractors were wary of the CFMEU's influence. (AAP: Joel Carrett)

A two-week block of public hearings for Victoria's Big Build royal commission have started.

The first day of hearings explored the events leading up to a stop-work at a Sunbury level crossing removal site in June 2022.

The public hearings continue until November 20, days out from the state election.

Victoria's Big Build royal commission has heard a major contractor was wary of the "unprecedented access" the CFMEU had to government ministers, as well as alleged threats against subcontractors.

A level crossing removal project at Sunbury, in Melbourne's outer north, was the focus of the first day of a two-week block of public hearings. 

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Chris Young, KC, talks fast and barely stumbles. The lead counsel assisting the inelegantly named Royal Commission into the Integrity of Major Public and Civil Infrastructure Construction Projects in Victoria, spent most of the first substantive day of hearings reading from documents.

Players in Victoria’s Big Build have already handed over 110,000 of them and Young, who it appears is well across his brief, used them to paint a series of quick-fire word pictures.

The CFMEU had “unprecedented” access to the state government of Jacinta Allan and Daniel Andrews because of their personal and factional links, he said, reading from a note prepared by John Holland, one of the nation’s largest construction companies.

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