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0:00Coming up on 60 Minutes. It's straight
0:03out corruption. This absolutely needs to
0:05be exposed. We've got the smoking gun.
0:09>> You live in fear of speaking out.
0:11>> A Nick McKenzie investigation you cannot
0:15miss.
0:16>> What do Victorians deserve given what's
0:18going on?
0:19>> They deserve nothing but the truth.
0:21That's next on 60 Minutes.
0:24The big build in Victoria is a massive
0:27infrastructure scheme largely financed
0:29by the public purse. It should be a
0:32source of massive pride, especially for
0:34the Victorian Labour premier just to
0:36Allen. Instead, it's a massive scam, one
0:40of the largest in Australian history,
0:42where gangland figures and other crooks
0:45have ripped off billions of dollars from
0:47the taxpayer. Of course, claims of
0:50corruption on the big build are not new.
0:53on 60 Minutes and in the Age and Sydney
0:55Morning Herald. I've been reporting on
0:57the blatant wrongdoing for two years.
1:00But it's only now I've discovered why
1:02very little has been done to stop it.
1:05Damning evidence we'll reveal tonight
1:08proves the Victorian government turned a
1:10blind eye to the rotting.
1:14>> Mick, would you like to say anything?
1:17While it's long been suspected that
1:19underworld identity Mick Gateau has had
1:22ties to corruption in Melbourne's
1:24construction industry, proving it has
1:27been another matter entirely. Mick, why
1:30were police at your property?
1:32>> That is until now. For the first time,
1:36we can reveal the evidence that shows
1:39Gateau is profitering from Victoria's
1:42$100 billion infrastructure program, the
1:46Big Build.
1:46>> People would be horrified to know that's
1:49actually happening and this has been
1:51allowed to happen. It's just crazy.
1:54Tonight we name the big build companies
1:56with Gatau or his associates on their
2:00payrolls enabled by some of the biggest
2:03contractors in the country. Have they
2:05been held to account?
2:06>> They have not been held to account.
2:08>> Why the hell not?
2:08>> Because the laws in this country need to
2:10be improved
2:12>> and we confront a premier in denial on
2:15why taxpayers are being so
2:17comprehensively duted.
2:20Do you accept as you stand here today
2:23that there is in fact corruption and has
2:26been corruption on the big bill? Do you
2:27accept that yes or no?
2:28>> Well, if there is evidence to support
2:30that and that is those that evidence is
2:32found to be supported by Victoria
2:34Police's investigations, that is a
2:36matter for Victoria Police to report on.
2:39>> The premier still won't acknowledge the
2:41fact of corruption on the big build. Are
2:44you in any doubt there is a factual
2:47basis to say there is corruption on the
2:49big build? Oh, sorry. Read my lips.
2:51There is corruption on the big build and
2:53everybody knows it.
2:59>> That's amazing.
3:02>> The evidence is explosive. It shows just
3:05how deep the underworld has sunk its
3:07claws into Victoria's big ticket rail
3:10and road scheme. What's clear is that to
3:13access and remain on the big build, some
3:16subcontractors are paying Mick Gateau or
3:19his associates large sums of money.
3:22Money that's ultimately added to the
3:24bloated taxpayer bill. It's a megawar.
3:27It's costing the state a fortune.
3:35The evidence has come from an industry
3:38insider who's had ghetto on the payroll.
3:41He's turned whistleblower to reveal the
3:44frightening cost and grubby truth of how
3:47some still get work on the largest rail
3:50and road scheme in Victoria's history.
3:55The informer is at risk, so we've had to
3:58hide his identity. But the words spoken
4:01by an actor are his.
4:04You've asked to be disguised. You've
4:06asked for the name of your big build
4:07subcontractor not to be revealed. Why
4:10so?
4:11>> Unfortunately, when your personal safety
4:15is at stake,
4:17uh you don't have a choice but to remain
4:20anonymous.
4:21>> So, why then speak out at all?
4:24>> It's gotten ridiculous. the cost of the
4:26big build, the amount of unnecessary
4:29expenditure. At some point in time,
4:32something's got to be done. As much as
4:34it seems like the government has talked
4:36about things getting done, nothing seems
4:38to really change.
4:41>> But maybe, just maybe, this man's
4:44information might finally prompt action.
4:50That's because he's helped expose a
4:52complex web of money movements involving
4:55multiple companies all linked back to
4:58Mick Gatau or his crew. Their
5:01transactions involving large sums of
5:03money that continue to this day.
5:07Have you actually paid Mig?
5:10>> Yes.
5:11>> It's a stunning claim. He says he had no
5:15choice but to stump up hundreds of
5:18thousands of dollars to Ghetto and he's
5:20given us the invoices and bank transfers
5:23to prove it.
5:25If you don't pay Gatau, you don't get
5:28access to the big build through Gatau
5:32and through the union. Uh they control
5:35who goes on the project and who doesn't
5:39get access to the project.
5:41This might seem very far removed for the
5:43public. Why should they care?
5:45>> When we pay ghetto, it gets added to the
5:49cost of our work. If we didn't have to
5:52pay ghetto,
5:53we would do the work for cheaper and
5:56ultimately
5:58it's the general public that pay for
6:00that.
6:03It was earlier this month on a gray
6:05winter's day that the home of Victoria's
6:08most colorful gangland figure was raided
6:10by police. Mick Ghetto brushed it off,
6:14dismissing it as a total beat up over
6:17speeding demerit points.
6:18>> Appreciate all you guys saying in the
6:20cold. The only thing I can say is when
6:22they use 20 or 30 police over a speeding
6:25fine, this country is in trouble.
6:28>> Anyway, I've got to go. Take care, guys.
6:29Cheers.
6:32In interviews, Gateau has been equally
6:35dismissive of any suggestion he might
6:38have made money from Victoria's Big
6:40Bill.
6:41>> If the Anti-Corruption Commission then
6:43was given follow the money powers, would
6:45they find a paper trail leading from you
6:48to Big Bill contractors?
6:49>> No chance in the world.
6:52>> But our insider says that simply isn't
6:55true.
6:57Is Ghetto still earning money from big
6:59build subcontractors?
7:01>> Yes, he is.
7:02>> Why are they paying given we're meant to
7:04have had two years of government
7:06response and law enforcement response or
7:09why are people still paying Gh?
7:11>> I guess firstly he's he still is
7:13operating. There's been no stopping of
7:16his his empire. You've got the you've
7:19got the union still in cahoots with him.
7:22Uh so you have the threat of industrial
7:24action and of course the threat of
7:26ghetto ensuring that you won't get work
7:29on the big build and he still has
7:32influence without a doubt.
7:34>> How has organized crime seen the big
7:37build?
7:38>> I think opportunity just straight out of
7:39pot of money and it's the people that
7:42pay. This isn't a case of government
7:43money cuz government money is your
7:45money. It's the taxpayer money. It's
7:47obscene.
7:52In 2006, Dan Bulch was a detective with
7:56the Piranha Task Force, probing
7:58Melbourne's underworld and arresting
8:00some of the worst of the worst.
8:03He went on to become the deputy
8:05commissioner of Papa Newu Guiney's
8:07corruption watchdog. We asked him to
8:10analyze the information we've uncovered
8:12about Victoria's big build. You've spent
8:15the last part of your career combating
8:18corruption in PNG. How does Victoria's
8:21Big Build compare?
8:22>> I think the way in which it operates um
8:24is very very similar and it was really
8:26surprising. I mean, there's a phrase
8:28that I keep hearing and I've heard it a
8:29lot over my time in organized crime and
8:31and in corruption and it's everybody
8:33eats.
8:39It's precisely the phrase we heard two
8:42years ago when 60 Minutes the Age and
8:45the Sydney Morning Herald first exposed
8:47the ugly underbelly of the Big Build in
8:50this undercover sting. Back then we
8:54caught self-styled industry fixer Harry
8:57Chorus explaining how a wouldbe
8:59subcontractor needed to pay kickbacks to
9:03guarantee access to the big build. I
9:06think the upfront fee is cash, but all
9:08you're going to do, I told you, pay the
9:10boys, make sure they're okay,
9:12>> and that's it. That's business.
9:13>> And everybody eats.
9:16>> Everybody eats. It's straight out
9:18corruption. Like, there's another word
9:20for it.
9:21>> That tape came out two years ago. Not a
9:25single charge in connection to it. What
9:28does that tell us about how the system
9:31is working today?
9:32>> Well, it's not, is it? I mean, two
9:34years. I mean, whilst some
9:36investigations can take a long time, but
9:39why would you not be looking at that the
9:40next day? It's bizarre.
9:43>> Throughout those 2 years, the
9:46construction industry's Mr. Fixit, Mick
9:48Gatau, has loomed large. He styles
9:52himself as a mediator who gets things
9:55done. But Dan Bulch sees him as an
9:58industry gatekeeper who trades on fear.
10:03How has he remained so relevant for so
10:05long in the construction sector here?
10:07>> Yeah. What's the name Nick Ghetto? And
10:09it wields influence not only in the
10:10underworld but also now in the
10:12construction industry.
10:13>> And it makes money.
10:14>> 100% it does.
10:17>> You've conducted your own analysis for
10:19us. Have you seen hard evidence that
10:21Mikado has been paid by big build
10:24subcontractors and is still being paid
10:26by the same?
10:27>> Yes, I have. And it's not small. There
10:30are payments that are coming uh from
10:33those companies, those subcontractors
10:35that are going to MCAT and we're looking
10:37at payments, you know, ranging between5
10:41to $60,000 at a time on a regular basis.
10:45And the question is, what does McGhetto
10:47do on the big build?
10:48>> I'll ask you, what does he do?
10:49>> I haven't seen anything. I think what
10:51what he does is this so-called mediation
10:54and consultation on what I mean haven't
10:57we got like a a well-paid
11:00internationally renowned construction
11:01company in partnership with the state
11:03government that's overseeing all of this
11:06don't they know what they're doing what
11:09what is it that McGau is actually doing
11:10for them
11:13>> so why hasn't anything been done to curb
11:17Matau's secret business empire
11:20>> these These big build contractors
11:23paying Gat, are they victims or are they
11:26part of the problem?
11:27>> Are they part of the problem?
11:29>> Coming up, how on earth has it come to
11:32this?
11:33>> I think they deserve nothing but the
11:35truth. This absolutely needs to be
11:37exposed.
11:48Given that Victoria's colossal
11:50infrastructure program, the big bill, is
11:53paid for by taxpayers, where the money
11:56goes should be carefully vetted and
11:59beyond reproach. But the truth is, it's
12:02hemorrhaging money to companies with
12:05links to the underworld. It has been for
12:08years. that this is allowed to happen is
12:11a damning indictment of the Victorian
12:14government which seems paralyzed by
12:16inaction.
12:18>> What we have seen here in recent days
12:20isn't unionism. It's thuggish,
12:23unacceptable behavior. I have zero
12:26tolerance for this sort of behavior.
12:28>> Since the building bad scandal first
12:31broke in July 2024, Victorian Premier
12:34Justinta Allen has sounded like a
12:37scratched record. I have absolutely zero
12:40tolerance for this sort of behavior. I
12:42have zero tolerance for this sort of
12:45behavior. We have zero tolerance for
12:47this behavior. We have zero tolerance
12:49for this behavior.
12:50>> But her critics say there's been little
12:52to show for it.
12:54>> She says she has held herself
12:56responsible. Do you believe her? I
12:59>> I don't see any evidence of that at all.
13:00Just the opposite.
13:02Corruption investigator Jeffrey Watson,
13:05who's looked deep into rampant
13:07wrongdoing in the construction union,
13:10the CFMEU, says by any meaningful
13:13measure, Justinta Allen has failed.
13:16Well, it's just utterly inadequate. The
13:18people of Victoria should be absolutely
13:21angry, furious about this. It's actually
13:24letting a major problem continue to
13:26fester. It's actually funding organized
13:30crime, outlaw motorcycle gangs.
13:33It's actually shameful.
13:38>> Evidence of that can be found in the
13:40catalog of companies that we can reveal
13:44have gangland identity Nick Gatau on
13:46their payrolls. Our investigation has
13:50led us to over a dozen big build
13:52subcontractors whose owners have been
13:55making large payments to Gatau or his
13:58associates.
14:01Can you give me a stab at the combined
14:03turnover of these companies that have
14:06placed Gateau on their payroll?
14:08>> It's only a stab, but I can tell you
14:10it's millions. Hundreds of millions of
14:12dollars. No doubt about it. a proportion
14:15of which goes directly back to MC Gatau.
14:19>> Thanks to a leak from inside the Gateau
14:21Empire, we've identified dozens and
14:24dozens of payments from big build
14:27companies to Gatau month after month
14:30through 2024, 2025, and even 2026.
14:36They're mostly in the tens of thousands,
14:38but sometimes more. And in all, they
14:41total millions. They just won't leave me
14:44alone and what I do is all above board
14:47and completely legal.
14:48>> Jeffrey Watson says Ghetto has been
14:51helping big build firms prosper as they
14:55serviced multi-million dollar taxpayer
14:57contracts with the gangland boss getting
15:00his cut.
15:01>> And I'm yet to see any evidence of any
15:03useful service that Mr. Ghetto provided.
15:06When he was smoothing over disputes,
15:07they were often manufactured disputes.
15:10when he was uh quilling a fight between
15:13two parties, it was something he usually
15:15engineered. I never saw him provide any
15:20useful service and yet he was being
15:23paid.
15:25It's very clear
15:27millions of dollars a year.
15:29>> Why do labor hire companies do you think
15:31put Migate on their payroll?
15:34>> Hiring Ghetto helps you get onto the big
15:36build. Hiring Ghetto keeps you on the
15:39big build. Hiring Ghetto keeps your jobs
15:42operating smoothly while you are on the
15:44big build.
15:47In March 2025, Australian Federal Police
15:50were also on the money trail as they
15:53raided the home and office of the Gatau
15:56Cruz accountant Charles Pelro.
16:00Back then, we highlighted how gangland
16:02figures were profiting from the big
16:04build, leading to yet more promises of a
16:07crackdown by the premier.
16:10Are you aware that at the moment
16:12gangland figures continue to profit from
16:14the big build?
16:16>> So, if there are allegations of that
16:18regard, I would encourage those
16:19allegations to be put to Victoria
16:21Police. I have absolutely zero tolerance
16:24for this sort of behavior.
16:27>> But the evidence shows the payments kept
16:30on coming and are still coming out of
16:33the blue corner. This man's a tradey
16:35standing.
16:36>> To understand how it works, it helps to
16:38meet this man,
16:40>> Tony the Trayone.
16:45Tony Chiconei is an amateur fighter seen
16:49here with his trainer and mate Sam
16:51Greco. Chicone owns a company called
16:54Cyclon Civil and he and Greco also own
16:58Project Labor Solutions, a labor hire
17:01firm.
17:04>> The industry insider who has revealed to
17:06us the secrets of Matau's business
17:08empire says both companies were favored
17:12for lucrative work on the big build.
17:14SYON Civil are a major civil contractor
17:17in Victoria and Project Labor Solutions
17:20is a labor hire business owned by the
17:22Syon Civil owners. They work on the big
17:25build. Project Labor Solutions supplies
17:28hundreds and hundreds of personnel to
17:30the big build contractors.
17:32>> Do you know as a fact that the owner of
17:36Syon Civil Project Labor Solutions is
17:39actually paying Miketta? Yes. So, I I
17:42know that as a fact.
17:44>> And And why are those payments being
17:46made?
17:46>> Access to the big build. There's
17:48established labor high companies that
17:50have been in Victoria for 20 years that
17:52didn't get access to the big build. Um,
17:55but PLS and some others did. Uh, so it
18:00can only be through paying Gatau and
18:02getting the favoritism that you need to
18:04get that lucrative contract.
18:09Despite Tony Chicone's denials, he has
18:12paid Migato more than 30 times, over $1
18:16million in total with multiple payments
18:19in 2026.
18:21We've also learned Chiconei is one of at
18:24least two big bill Gateau payers who
18:27have separately made donations and other
18:30payments totaling tens of thousands of
18:32dollars to the Victorian Labor Party and
18:36the CFMEU.
18:38But why would they do that? Oh,
18:40>> we'll have a guess. It's for exactly the
18:43same reason. The point is that they want
18:45the connections with the Labor Party the
18:47same way that they wanted with the
18:48CFMEU. There's a strong connection
18:50between the Labor Party, the CFMMEU, and
18:52the building industry.
18:55Another player in the scandal involving
18:58Gatau linked hire firms is this man, ex
19:02CFMEU boss turned industry consultant
19:06Joe Miles. Up until the middle of 2024,
19:10Miles had near free reign over the big
19:13build and was empowered by the union and
19:16the Labor government to pick which
19:19subcontractors would win lucrative
19:21contracts. His favorite firm was women
19:25in construction, a mega supplier of
19:28female workers to the big bill. And as
19:30we can reveal, another company paying
19:33Gateau a small fortune. It's plainly a
19:38company which is being run by criminals.
19:41I've seen evidence that it's paying a
19:43lot of money to MC Gatau to get that
19:46status in the first place and to keep
19:48it.
19:50For a company promoting equality, it's
19:53hard to imagine a less suitable pair to
19:56run women in construction than these two
19:59men. Owner and founder Luke Ellery has
20:03convictions for violence against women
20:06as does its former manager, major
20:08criminal Wayne Carter.
20:11>> He's a man with a very, very serious
20:13criminal record, which goes to heroin
20:15dealing, methamphetamine dealing, other
20:17drugs, violence, including domestic
20:20violence.
20:21>> Wayne Carter was also a good mate of Joe
20:24Miles. We've uncovered court records
20:26that show Miles wrote to the Queensland
20:28judge preparing to sentence Carter for
20:31drug trafficking in 2020. In his plea
20:34for leniency, Miles said he would
20:36provide Carter with significant support
20:39if he moved to Melbourne. Sure enough,
20:41when Carter was released from jail,
20:43Miles placed him in charge of Women in
20:46Construction and pushed the company onto
20:48Labour's big build.
20:50>> What did you learn about what Wayne
20:51Junior Carter was doing at Women in
20:53Construction? I was repeatedly told the
20:56women in construction had been set up by
20:58a sexual predator who was actually
21:00obtaining sexual services from the women
21:02so that they could get these very
21:04lucrative jobs.
21:06It was really awful.
21:11What's more, Jeffrey Watson says women
21:13in construction was hugely inflating
21:16what it charged the big build.
21:19>> There's no doubt about that. If you have
21:20a look at the use of these specialized
21:23firms with CFMEU connections, they were
21:26charging 25% more than other labor hire
21:30companies.
21:30>> Did the Labor government know that Women
21:33in Construction was costing ultimately
21:35it as you say 25% more? Yes, I've seen
21:39the paperwork which went through to the
21:41governmental officials to explain to
21:43them that the CFMEU had forced certain
21:46large contractors to use favored labor
21:50hire companies and that they were
21:52literally 25% more.
21:57We've confirmed Women in Construction
21:59cost the taxpayer tens of millions of
22:01dollars and it funneled $700,000
22:05to Mick Gateau, including fresh payments
22:08this year. How do you describe the Women
22:11in Construction story?
22:13>> I think it's really one of the blackest
22:14marks of all because they've set up a
22:17business which as far as I can tell has
22:20just been lining the pockets of people
22:21with extensive criminal records.
22:24Coming up,
22:26>> why is it so hard to simply acknowledge
22:27the fact that there is corruption on the
22:29big bill?
22:31>> The smoking gun that shows just what the
22:34Victorian premier knew.
22:43No one has done more to try to clean up
22:46Victoria's construction sector than
22:49Steve Dargable.
22:51He's the Labour hire commissioner and
22:53since the building bad scandal broke two
22:56years ago, he's been hunting down
22:58companies who are secretly in bed with
23:01the underworld.
23:03>> People who have done the wrong thing
23:04should be held to account.
23:06>> Your investigators have been pursuing
23:08labor providers in the construction
23:10sector.
23:10>> Absolutely.
23:11>> You've been cancelling licenses.
23:13>> Absolutely.
23:13>> You've been seeking to cancel licenses.
23:15>> Absolutely.
23:18And days ago, after we began asking
23:21questions, he tore up the license of
23:24labor hire firm Women in Construction,
23:26giving it until next Friday to get off
23:29Victoria's mega infrastructure scheme,
23:31the big build.
23:35But his real beef is with the tier ones,
23:38the massive firms running the big build
23:40for the state government and hiring
23:43Gatau links companies like Women in
23:45Construction and Project Labor
23:47Solutions. What sort of behavior in
23:50layman's terms are we talking about?
23:51>> There is evidence of principal
23:54contractors being involved in uh
23:57unlawful conduct or supporting those who
23:59are engaging in unlawful conduct. You
24:02say tier ones, the major companies using
24:04this construction labor hire are
24:05responsible.
24:06>> I say that they are absolutely
24:07responsible and should be held to
24:09account.
24:10>> Have they been held to account?
24:11>> They have not been held to account.
24:12>> Why the hell not?
24:13>> Because the laws in this country need to
24:15be improved. Ultimately, the fish rots
24:18from the head. The principal contractor
24:20is the head. And if the body is rotten,
24:22the question has to be why are they
24:24suffering it to continue?
24:27But we can also show how the Victorian
24:30government has knowingly done its part
24:33in squandering taxpayer money estimated
24:36to be in the billions. The evidence is
24:40contained in a tranch of secret
24:42documents written in 2023 and 2024 by
24:47the principal contractors building the
24:49Metro Tunnel and other mega rail
24:52projects. The leak shows the Metro
24:55Tunnel project said it was the state
24:57government who told it to use CFMEU
25:00companies even though it cost the
25:02project an additional $200 million in
25:06labor high costs. The leak also reveals
25:08the Victorian government actively
25:11supported the SEMA's big build labor
25:14high racket.
25:16The Metro Tunnel report also names two
25:20firms contributing to cost blowouts.
25:23We have separately confirmed both had a
25:26familiar name on their payrolls,
25:29underworld figure Matau. Earlier this
25:32month, the premier fronted the media but
25:35refused to do more than acknowledge
25:38allegations of wrongdoing on the big
25:40bill.
25:41>> Okay. Premier, do you accept that there
25:43has been serious corruption on the big
25:45bill?
25:46>> There has been allegations that I find
25:48appalling. Absolutely appalling.
25:51>> You mentioned allegations. Do you accept
25:53as you stand here today that there is in
25:56fact corruption and has been corruption
25:59on the big bill. Do you accept that? Yes
26:00or no?
26:00>> Well, if there is evidence to support
26:02that and that is those that evidence is
26:04found to be supported by Victoria
26:06Police's investigations, that is a
26:08matter for Victoria Police. Surely it's
26:09a matter for you as premier and as the
26:11minister formerly responsible for the
26:13big build.
26:14>> Surely.
26:15>> Yes. And again, where there are
26:17allegations of illegal or criminal
26:19behavior, they should always be referred
26:22to Victoria Police.
26:24>> Why is it so hard to simply acknowledge
26:25the fact that there is corruption on the
26:27big bill? Again, I have already and I
26:30indicated this. I draw you back to what
26:32I said at the outset was absolutely
26:35appalled by the uh by the reporting and
26:38the allegations of alleged criminal
26:40behavior.
26:43>> Robert Redick and Deborah Glass used to
26:46be the most senior corruption fighters
26:48in Victoria. Robert, a former judge at
26:51the helm of the independent broad-based
26:53anti-corruption commission, and Deborah,
26:56the former state ombudsman. They've now
26:59joined forces to call for Justint Allen
27:01to do what they say is desperately
27:04needed.
27:05>> This is an unprecedented
27:08historic scandal.
27:10Um, I know of no scandal that's involved
27:14the sort of public wastage that has
27:16occurred here. And it's only a royal
27:20commission that can root out all of the
27:24causes, all of the reasons why the
27:27checks and balances that are in place
27:30have failed. How would you describe the
27:33fact that multiple big build
27:35subcontractors
27:37are even today regularly paying mig?
27:41Well, it's a form of of extortion. If
27:44you want to participate in the big
27:46build, you have to pay not for the
27:49service you're uh rendering. You have to
27:52pay to get into the process. That's a
27:55form of extortion.
27:58Mick Gateau and Justinta Allen both
28:00declined our interview requests. But
28:03this month, two years too late, the
28:06premier announced she would give
28:08Redlick's old anti-corruption agency,
28:10IBBACK, new powers to trace money moving
28:13from the big build to gangland figures
28:16like MGATA. However, there is a catch.
28:20The new measures won't come into effect
28:22until the end of 2027, over a year after
28:27the November state election. What we're
28:30seeing is
28:32a government that decides to build a
28:37huge expensive hole in the ground.
28:41And when it's digging that huge
28:43expensive hole, it doesn't care what it
28:46costs.
28:47doesn't care what what else is involved.
28:51It just keeps on digging.
28:54>> Has the premier of Victoria dug herself
28:56into a hole that she simply can't get
28:57out of now?
28:59>> I think that's a question for a Royal
29:00Commission.
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