Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. 

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January.

Today we’re taking you to the start of such a big story that the fall-out from it is still reverberating - the CFMEU scandal.

Investigative reporter Nick McKenzie, who broke the story, explains how the powerful construction union was infiltrated by criminals.