Big Build royal commission LIVE updates: First Gap Road level project witnesses to testify at construction royal commission

The commission has flagged that it will call its first witnesses to testify today.

The identities of the witnesses cannot be published ahead of their appearance, but the commission has made clear that this two-week hearing block will focus solely on the Gap Road level crossing removal project in Sunbury.

More specifically, it will be looking at the events of June 2022, when the CFMEU effectively muscled its way onto the project and into the heart of the $109 billion Big Build program.

The royal commission released a slew of documents relating to the first day’s hearing. Here’s a selection of the more compelling examples.

Good morning, welcome to our live coverage of the royal commission into Victoria’s construction industry.

To catch you up on what was covered yesterday, read:

• Adam Carey’s news story on the warnings that Jacinta Allan’s department sought to deliver in 2022 and 2023 about how the CFMEU’s behaviour just on traffic controllers could add more than $400 million to the cost of major project;
• Michael Bachelard‘s analysis of the first day proper of hearings; and
• Nick McKenzie’s read on where the royal commission might be heading in its examination of the Gap Road project.