Claims of bikies, strippers and drugs in the CFMEU threaten to end Jacinta Allan’s premiership. Can she survive?

A report alleging the Victorian branch of the union had turned into a ‘crime syndicate’ has sparked a war between the state government and a corruption fighterGet our , or Every morning, Sam* wakes up around 4am, puts on his steel cap boots and drives to work on a construction site in Melbourne’s south-east. The summer heat has been relentless, but he says the pay is solid, the crew tight and the site safe.He credits this to his union, the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union – or CFMEU – which was thrust back into the national spotlight last week after the release of a report by corruption fighter Geoffrey Watson SC.