{"id":43427,"date":"2026-07-03T05:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/43427\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:25:06","slug":"firefighters-union-loses-supreme-court-bid-to-keep-corruption-probe-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/43427\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters’ union loses Supreme Court bid to keep corruption probe secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

The firefighters’ union has lost a Supreme Court bid to keep secret a corruption probe into its dealings with the government of former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews.<\/p>\n

Operation Richmond investigated allegations of corrupt conduct during the enterprise bargaining agreement dispute between the union, the Country Fire Authority and Victorian government in 2016.<\/p>\n

The report will not be tabled in parliament for at least two weeks, with IBAC giving the court an undertaking not to release Operation Richmond while the UFU and Mr Marshall consider an appeal.<\/p>\n

The union has two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The investigation was launched in 2018 and was wrapped up in 2022.<\/p>\n

But the public release of the report has been delayed<\/a> until the Supreme Court case between the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) and the United Firefighters Union resolves (UFU).<\/p>\n

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IBAC’s probe into corruption allegations began in 2018. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

The anti-corruption watchdog’s probe is understood to have included interviews with Mr Andrews and senior ministers, however witnesses are unable to confirm or deny if they have been spoken to under IBAC’s laws.<\/p>\n

This morning Justice Claire Harris dismissed the union and its secretary Peter Marshall’s arguments for a judicial review.<\/p>\n

There is a period of time for the UFU to appeal the decision and Mr Marshall told the ABC the union was “considering our position”.<\/p>\n

The court will return later this afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The firefighters’ union has lost a Supreme Court bid to keep secret a corruption probe into its dealings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,27367,21210,3862,33687,33688,21208,33686,1334],"class_list":["post-43427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-cfa","tag-corruption","tag-daniel-andrews","tag-eba","tag-firefighter","tag-ibac","tag-ufu","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}