Ex-CFMEU Qld president’s $285K corruption conviction appeal collapses

A Supreme Court judge has savaged a former Queensland union president’s appeal against his corruption conviction, involving a construction company paying for the partial build of the man’s home, with the inference the level of union scrutiny on the company’s sites would be ease.

The judge said there was “no rational basis” that the former union figure “believed he was simply a lucky man as the recipient of a $285,000 benefit for nothing” and dismissed the challenge that the favour would not influence him because “it amounted to 40 per cent of the cost of his private home”.

David Arthur Hanna became Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union Queensland construction and general division president in 2014. He…