00:02Over budget and over time, the man in charge of Brisbane's Cross River Rail claims the CFMEU derailed construction.
00:11They made a very clear message that they were going to target the project.
00:14Pushing for better pay, the union shut down work on Queensland's biggest infrastructure project for 148 days in 2024 at
00:24taxpayers expense.
00:26Union disruption, conduct and behaviour might have led to delays in the delivery of certain milestones on the project.
00:35Members allegedly poured concrete into toilets, sabotaged critical equipment and made repeated false claims about poor safety to hijack work
00:46sites.
00:47Graham Newton says they wanted to maximise the damage.
00:50It became a pretty standard practice of the CFMEU to just put misinformation into the marketplace to undermine the credibility
00:59of the project.
01:03As tensions flared, Mr Newton became a target.
01:06He's a fraud, he's so many other things, he's incompetent, he's inept.
01:11Was this the first time that you're aware that there was a direct attack on you personally?
01:16It was part of an ongoing campaign is probably the best way to describe it.
01:20The inquiry also heard CFMEU leaders tried to influence the tender process.
01:26Mr Newton alleges they had a direct line of communication into former Deputy Premier Jackie Trad's office.
01:33I won't be cutting across the Commission of Inquiry.
01:37If they require me to provide a statement or give evidence, I'll do that, but I won't do it through
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