Disclosures by the Herald last week involving a gangland associate, a Gold Coast developer and the CFMEU are disturbing – not only because they are innately concerning, but also because they show yet again that the cancerous network of thuggery, intimidation and misfeasance that contaminates business, industry and wider society throughout this country continues. It is a stain on the nation.

The Herald reported that gangland associate John Khoury was paid $110,000 by Queensland-Melbourne joint venture Glen Q to help secure industrial peace on the Gold Coast, where the developer was building a 16-level project at Broadbeach.

Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie.Credit: Joe Ruckli

A meeting was held between influential CFMEU figures and Khoury. This occurred four months after the federal government forced the union into administration.

There is no suggestion the union........

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