A state government-run construction council voted to give its oversight of industry disputes to a $1.3 billion fund that was partly controlled by then CFMEU boss John Setka.

The vote was held in February 2024, shortly before this masthead’s Building Bad investigative series – which detailed the criminal infiltration of the powerful construction union – forced Setka to resign as Victorian secretary.

Board minutes obtained by the Victorian opposition show that the Building Industry Consultative Council (BICC) agreed to give up its governance of the Victorian Building Industry Disputes Panel, a body set up to resolve industrial relations conflicts in the construction sector.

The contentious plan, later abandoned, would have removed government supervision of a disputes body that helps set t

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