Nick McKenzie
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Oct 27, 2026
Philip ClarkHOST
There is a state election coming up as we know.
Philip ClarkHOST
In 2024, journalist Nick McKenzie and Ben Schneiders launched an investigation into allegations of corruption and organised crime within the CFMEU.
Philip ClarkHOST
The resulting shockwaves rattled politics in Victoria and other states as well as federally.
Philip ClarkHOST
And the fallout was profound as well.
Philip ClarkHOST
Allegations of the amount and extent of corruption in the public building infrastructure program in Victoria are quite eye-watering.
Philip ClarkHOST
Geoffrey Watson QC, when conducting his own investigation in Queensland, thought... that possibly 15, maybe up to $30 billion had been funnelled off the projects, that's public money, funnelled off the projects into the hands of organised crime figures and gangs and other corrupt people.
Philip ClarkHOST
How was that allowed to happen? Well, Nick McKenzie investigates politics and business and foreign affairs and criminal justice.
Philip ClarkHOST
He's an aged journalist.
Jane HutcheonHOST
Is this Europe's next anti-establishment wave? Also ahead, Victoria's CFMEU was Australia's most powerful construction union, until it was brought down by allegations of corruption and collusion with organised crime.
Jane HutcheonHOST
A new book by journalists Nick McKenzie and Ben Schneiders exposes the political, criminal and industrial power dynamics that allowed it to happen.
Jane HutcheonHOST
and from derision to success how lizanne mcgregor revitalized the museum of contemporary art
Lizanne McGregorGUEST
there was this tag that it was elitist so we had to get rid of that and i really loved that because i spent 10 years in birmingham which is a pretty gritty city and i was passionate about demonstrating that postcode doesn't say whether you're going to be interested in art or not
18 MINS LATER
Jane HutcheonHOST
But beneath the cranes, tunnels and construction sites, something much darker was taking shape, one involving union power, organised crime, favoured contractors and taxpayers picking up the bill.
Jane HutcheonHOST
It's a story of bikies on building sites, underworld figures acting as industrial fixers, and allegations of intimidation and corruption that stretch to some of the state's biggest projects.
Jane HutcheonHOST
This extraordinary story is the subject of a new book by two of the age's investigative journalists, Ben Schneiders and Nick McKenzie.
Jane HutcheonHOST
The book is called Building Bad, and I'm delighted to have Nick and Ben join me now.
Omar HassanHOST
Yeah.
Omar HassanHOST
Nick McKenzie.
Omar HassanHOST
Yeah.
Omar HassanHOST
All these people just going on and on about a made up figure.
Benita KolovosGUEST
And then I think from about the middle of 2024, so she'd been in the role for around six to nine months, we started to hear about these allegations of corruption on government construction sites, the big build.
Benita KolovosGUEST
That was the dogged reporting of Nick McKenzie at the age.
Benita KolovosGUEST
And that reporting continued almost weekly, sometimes even daily for two years.
Benita KolovosGUEST
And Jacinta Allen did not want to call a royal commission into the issue.
Sam BamfordHOST
They knew the drop of Ben Robert Smith when he got arrested.
Sam BamfordHOST
Nick McKenzie uploaded it the night before.
Sam BamfordHOST
The AFP gave him the rest.
Sam BamfordHOST
they allocate resources to go after ben robert smith for months and months and months leading up to the bondi incident but because they had a whole bunch of resources allocated on him they missed and slipped on the bondi event and 15 people got slaughtered over it it's like you want us to turn the political temperature down how about you guys look in the mirror how about you guys for once in your life Take a bit of accountability.
15 MINS LATER
Scott ChallenGUEST
He also said that there was two opportunities for him to hand himself in a couple of months prior, and they were rejected by the AFP.
Sam BamfordHOST
Yeah.
Scott ChallenGUEST
They made a conscious decision to arrest him in New South Wales because it benefited the evidence that they're going to put forward in the case and to publicly humiliate him and to use, let's call them tools, like Nick McKenzie, to push the narrative.
Scott ChallenGUEST
Yeah, to get on the front foot with it.
Ben Roberts-SmithGUEST
Sarah was like, well, how would they know to be standing at the gate? Because I work in PR and you don't just turn up at an airport hoping something's going to happen.
Ben Roberts-SmithGUEST
And as we'd subsequently find out, you've got a story from Nick McKenzie uploaded to the Age website on the URL confirmed timestamped for the night before I got arrested about me being arrested.
Ben Roberts-SmithGUEST
I mean, that whole arrest stinks.
Ben Roberts-SmithGUEST
And I'll say this about the AFP officers on the day that were physically there doing the arrest.
Kane CornesHOST
And from a journalistic point of view, 2GB owned by Nine, right? Yep.
Kane CornesHOST
Nick McKenzie was the journalist and Masters was the other one.
Kane CornesHOST
Chris Masters, yep.
Kane CornesHOST
Owned by Nine as well.
Sam EdmundHOST
So hard for me to comment because I saw it pop up and I haven't taken the time to watch it.
Sam EdmundHOST
I have read the book.
Sam EdmundHOST
I have read Nick McKenzie's book, Crossing the Line, which I think is one of the most amazing pieces of journalism in my generation.
Sam EdmundHOST
I cannot believe...
Kane CornesHOST
And from a journalistic point of view, 2GB owned by Nine, right? Yep.
Kane CornesHOST
Nick McKenzie was the journalist and Masters was the other one.
Kane CornesHOST
Chris Masters, yep.
Kane CornesHOST
Owned by Nine as well.
Sam EdmundHOST
So hard for me to comment because I saw it pop up and I haven't taken the time to watch it.
Sam EdmundHOST
I have read the book.
Sam EdmundHOST
I have read Nick McKenzie's book, Crossing the Line, which I think is one of the most amazing pieces of journalism in my generation.
Sam EdmundHOST
I cannot believe...
Richard BakerHOST
But social media, like you look at the comments under stuff, under posts, right? And it is – there are so many fucking heroes out there that think they're tough.
Richard BakerHOST
Like I looked at a post or something you sent me recently where – the yarn did something on Mick Gatto having targeting Nick McKenzie over his reporting.
Richard BakerHOST
Okay.
Richard BakerHOST
People can have their own opinions on, the validity of Nick or any journalists reporting, but they were sort of, you know, platforming Gatto over it.
Sharri MarksonHOST
Ben Robert Smith says all he's asking for is a fair go.
Sharri MarksonHOST
And he told Ben Fordham about the $700,000 that Nine paid to a witness who had damning evidence against its journalist, Nick McKenzie.
Sharri MarksonHOST
I first broke that story here with the shocking recording of McKenzie speaking to this witness on the phone.
Sharri MarksonHOST
And again, the interview is coming up shortly at 8.30pm.
5 MINS LATER
Matt CanavanGUEST
I mean, this was clearly, in all elements of political tactics, a dirt sheet.
Matt CanavanGUEST
The Prime Minister's office was spreading this around to seek to raise questions about Dr Haynes' integrity, not, as now the Prime Minister was saying, trying to espouse her integrity.
Matt CanavanGUEST
I mean, does he seriously believe that we believe that the purpose of this sheet being sent to journalists was to sell and promote? What a great person.
Matt CanavanGUEST
Helen Haynes is.
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