60 Minutes

60 Minutes Nick McKenzie revisits the CFMEU saga, revealing new information.

Building Worse
Eight months ago, in a series of award-winning stories, 60 Minutes, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, exposed endemic corruption and criminality at Australia's most powerful construction union, the CFMEU. Nick McKenzie's reports, "Building Bad", so horrified federal and state governments that immediate action was promised. Police investigations were launched, an administrator was appointed to take over the running over the union, and influential union figures, including bikies who'd wheedled their way into the organisation, were sacked. It looked like the rot was finally over. However, as McKenzie now discovers, that's far from the case. In fact it's business as usual for many of thugs associated with the CFMEU as they continue bullying and ripping off anyone who stands in their way.
Reporter: Nick McKenzie
Producers: Amelia Ballinger, Hannah Bowers

Why I Killed My Mother
You're unlikely to encounter anyone sweeter than Gypsy-Rose Blanchard. She really is charming. But she's also a convicted murderer. With help from a so-called boyfriend she met online, she killed her own mother. The brutal crime – Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard was stabbed 17 times – happened ten years ago, and Gypsy-Rose was imprisoned. But now she's free. On 60 Minutes, Amelia Adams meets a controversial young woman very determined to let the world know why she did what she did.
Reporter: Amelia Adams
Producers: Nichola Younger, Sheree Gibson

Pride & Prejudice
It can't be understated just how momentous January the 6th 2021 was for American democracy. It was the day rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building. The lead up to this dark moment in history began two months earlier when Donald Trump lost, but claimed he won, the 2020 Presidential election. The lie became Trump's mantra and the catalyst for the attack on America's most important institution. One of the instigators of the violence that day in January was Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right, neo-fascist group, the Proud Boys. He ended up being imprisoned for 22 years for seditious conspiracy. One thousand five hundred others were also sent to prison. But remarkably, now they're all free, beneficiaries of Trump Presidential pardons. And as Amelia Adams reports, armed with their ‘get out of jail' cards, Tarrio and his Proud Boys are not only empowered, they say they're invincible.
Reporter: Amelia Adams
Producer: Garry McNab

Mismatch of the Day
According to Rebecca Loos, soccer superstar David Beckham was not only a player on the field, off it he was one as well. Back in 2004, when she was his 26-year-old personal assistant, she publicly admitted they had a torrid affair. At the time, and unusually for such an attacking footballer, Beckham was defensive. He pleaded it was ludicrous to suggest he was unfaithful to his Spice Girl wife, Victoria. The denial infuriated Loos because she felt it implied she had lied. Eventually her anger gave way to resignation, but two years ago a rather vainglorious David Beckham obliquely referenced the liaison in a Netflix documentary. As Rebecca tells Dimity Clancey, his comments were an own goal that has given her a free kick to strike back.
Reporter: Dimity Clancey
Producer: Sammi Taylor

Tragedy in Tamworth
The pain is unbearable and the frustration immense. Baylen Pendergast's father, Luke, can't fathom how 11 years on from his toddler son's mysterious death, no one has been held responsible. There have been no arrests and no charges laid. That's despite overwhelming medical evidence suggesting the 21-month-old boy suffered horrific, non-accidental injuries. It's a tragedy that has stunned the country New South Wales community of Tamworth where Baylen lived. On 60 Minutes, Adam Hegarty investigates why, after more than a decade, there are still no answers for his dad.
Reporter: Adam Hegarty
Producers: Laura Sparkes, Toni Ambrogetti

Oops
It's easy to understand why actress Madeleine West is so committed to protecting children, and not just because she's a mother of six. As 60 Minutes reported last year, when she was a young girl Madeleine was the victim of a serial paedophile. For 40 years she kept the abuse secret, but then, in the performance of her life, she helped police collect the evidence they needed to charge the perpetrator. Peter Vincent White was subsequently imprisoned for 15 years for crimes against seven children. Now there is a new chapter for Madeleine West. She has a remarkable and wonderful surprise she wants to share – one that started with oops.
Reporter: Tara Brown
Producer: Nichola Younger

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Australians know John Singleton as a no-nonsense, super-successful business titan, always confident and in control. But on 60 MINUTES this week, a very different John Singleton. Not the businessman but a broken father consumed with despair over the death of his beautiful daughter Dawn. A year ago, almost to the day, Dawn and five others were stabbed to death at the Westfield Bondi shopping centre. The perpetrator was 40-year-old Joel Cauchi, a mentally ill man who, somehow, had fallen through the cracks of the health system. Now a coronial inquest is set to examine what happened and why. But in an exclusive television interview with Nine's Tracy Grimshaw, John says enough is enough.  He doesn't believe the inquest will achieve anything, and the prospect of reliving the day he lost his daughter fills him with horror.
Reporter: Tracy Grimshaw
Producer: Garry McNab

THE FIRST BUDDY
By announcing aggressive tariffs on goods coming into America, President Donald Trump has lost a lot of friends around the world. Not that he probably cares. And anyway, he has the world's richest man, his so-called "first buddy", for company if he gets lonely. As chief of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk has proven to be a very loyal functionary, and one who's more than happy to do his boss's dirty work. In a few short months in the role, Musk has overseen the decimation of the American bureaucracy, as well as the sacking of tens of thousands of federal workers, all in the name of eliminating waste and fraud. But as Amelia Adams reports, Musk too is paying a hefty price for his vigour.
Reporter: Amelia Adams
Producers: Garry McNab, Nichola Younger