Inquiry returns with Workplace Health and Safety Queensland in sights
Commissioner Stuart Wood AM KC is back in the big chair at the CFMEU inquiry for another three-day block of hearings today, after catching some rays on the Gold Coast last week.
For the first time, the inquiry will be hearing evidence from witnesses in government itself.
Four former Workplace Health and Safety Queensland principal inspectors are set to appear: David Cappelletti, Paul Watts, Noel Hayes, and Deborah Dargon (currently operations manager).
It’s unclear what exactly the four are being called for. But the inquiry has previously heard about a flawed agreement between police and the state’s industrial relations office – first reported by this masthead – and links between the office and the union.
This link, in the form of a “close personal relationship” between the former construction compliance and field services director Helen Burgess and the CFMEU’s former president, Royce Kupsch, saw the pair wield power to order inspectors around, the inquiry has heard.
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