Matt Dennien

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State political reporter at Brisbane Times・Qld media president with MEAA・Ex-4ZZZ, Tas newspapers・On Yuggera & Turrbal country・Contact details via bio link
Websitehttp://www.mattdennien.com/
Matt Dennien1d ago
The final day of Qld’s CFMEU inquiry until mid-April has heard from a former Cross River Rail contractor exec:
- Govt policies/involvement “swayed the negotiating balance” in initial union talks
- CPB “had to” hire CFMEU safety reps to end the union’s 2023 project lockdown https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/state-role-swayed-the-negotiating-balance-in-cross-river-rail-talks-20260319-p5qljw.html
State role ‘swayed the negotiating balance’ in Cross River Rail talks

Former CPB executive Don Johnson also told a Queensland inquiry the contractor “had to” hire CFMEU safety reps to end the union’s 2023 project lockdown.

Brisbane Times
Matt Dennien1d ago
Matt Dennien2d ago
Wrap here from two days of evidence to the Qld CFMEU inquiry outlining the union's years-long campaign of pressure through, and then on, key government figures before using its influence on the safety regulator to try and achieve its aims on Cross River Rail https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/how-the-cfmeu-tried-to-and-did-influence-qld-s-biggest-rail-project-20260318-p5onq2.html
How the CFMEU tried to, and did, influence Qld’s biggest rail project

Cross River Rail boss Graeme Newton has told a state inquiry of the union’s extensive pressure campaign, including the early sidelining of a key internal critic.

Brisbane Times
Matt Dennien2d ago
Wrap here from two days of evidence to the Qld CFMEU inquiry outlining the union's years-long campaign of pressure through, and then on, key government figures before using its influence on the safety regulator to try and achieve its aims on Cross River Rail https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/how-the-cfmeu-tried-to-and-did-influence-qld-s-biggest-rail-project-20260318-p5onq2.html
How the CFMEU tried to, and did, influence Qld’s biggest rail project

Cross River Rail boss Graeme Newton has told a state inquiry of the union’s extensive pressure campaign, including the early sidelining of a key internal critic.

Brisbane Times
Show threadMatt Dennien3d ago
Also in this week’s edition
- Red Union boss subbed in for CFMEU official on workplace safety board
- The long-delayed Police Integrity Unit’s working group which… hasn’t met since 2024
- A literary award-stripping workplace shakeup at the State Library + more
Read on here https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/a-ministerial-direction-a-court-warning-and-a-cloud-over-native-title-20260310-p5o90j.html
A ministerial direction, a court warning, and a cloud over native title

This week in our Queensland public sector column, Public Circus: native title questions swirl, (Red) Union boss’ board gig, slow progress on police integrity, and more.

Brisbane Times
Matt Dennien3d ago

In this week’s Public Circus, Dale Last quietly lobbed a direction to his dept in late Feb to contest native title applications – a major shift in longstanding, legally set, approach

The rippling uncertainty has even led the Fed Court to start asking Qs. Lucky, bc Last & his dept won’t answer ours

Matt DennienMar 13
New: Queensland police signed off on a controversial multimillion-dollar lease deal for a site in Brisbane’s south without proper approvals and then failed to initially disclose it to the state's audit office. https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/police-signed-stones-corner-lease-without-approval-then-didn-t-tell-auditors-20260313-p5oa84.html
Police signed Stones Corner lease without approval – then didn’t tell auditors

A Queensland Audit Office report sheds light on the controversial 15-year, $116 million station deal.

Brisbane Times
Show threadMatt DennienMar 11
@mike805 particularly when there is a specific carve-out in the laws for media reporting
Show threadMatt DennienMar 11
@mike805 sorry Mike, but subscriptions do allow us to keep doing th work we do! (And are only $1/week for the first 3 months atm)
Show threadMatt DennienMar 11
Read more here: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/election-map-redraw-could-hand-lnp-up-to-three-seats-analysis-suggests-20260311-p5o9dk.html
Election map redraw could hand LNP up to three seats, analysis suggests

Boundary shifts appear likely to see the seat of Labor’s Meaghan Scanlon turn blue, as the major parties trade barbs over the work.

Brisbane Times
Show threadMatt DennienMar 11
After Labor, citing whistleblowers, raised claims in a Feb parli hearing the govt had “informally” seen early details of the draft redraw (which we’ve been unable to verify), the Premier’s office has for weeks refused to even respond w/out Fentiman substantiating. Yesterday it said only this