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Two former CFMEU officials have been sentenced to jail after admitting to corruption by accepting thousands of dollars in bribes.

Darren Greenfield, 60, and his son Michael, 40, accepted wads of cash, in some cases literally under the table, from a building company for preferential treatment from the union and access to contracts.

Judge Leonie Flannery called the breach of trust of both senior union officials "egregious" during a sentence at Sydney's Central District Court today.

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"The offenders used the influence of the union for their own personal benefit rather than for the benefit of its members," she said.

She accepted that the elder Greenfield, who was the NSW branch secretary of the CFMEU, did not seek the bribes, but rather they came to him and he accepted the payments in a moment of weakness.

Father and son sat silently in court, hands in their laps, listening to the judge.

They were sentenced to a combined maximum total of four years in prison.

Darren Greenfield took four bribes totalling $20,000 between November 2018 and June 2020. 

His son, the branch's assistant state secretary and former rugby league player, accepted two payments which amounted to $10,000 over two-and-a-half months in 2019.

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Michael Greenfield also tried to avoid a penalty for running a red light by signing a false statutory declaration which pinned the blame on an illegal Taiwanese worker.

The CMFEU was placed into administration in 2024 after allegations of corruption and links to organised crime.

Darren Greenfield was terminated on the same day, several weeks after Michael resigned amid media scrutiny.

The elder Greenfield was sentenced to up to 30 months but will be released after 10 months.

His son was hit with a maximum sentence of 18 but will be released in six.

Both will be required to pay $500 and remain on good behaviour while serving the remainder of their sentence in the community.

The person who bribed the elder Greenfield told police he handed over the wads of cash because the CMFEU state secretary "helped us do things", the court was previously told.

The man, who cannot be named, was in 2022 sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment, to be served in the community. 

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A neo-Nazi accused of directing supporters to "rhetorically rape" a federal politician will remain behind bars, as federal police crack down on threats and harassment against elected officials.

Joel Davis, 30, appeared before Sydney magistrate Daniel Covington today, when he was denied bail.

The National Socialist Network mouthpiece allegedly used a carriage service to encourage abuse and hate towards independent Wentworth MP Allegra Spender.

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Davis is accused of calling on supporters to "rhetorically rape" the parliamentarian in an encrypted online platform after she condemned the group for holding a rally to "abolish the Jewish lobby" outside the NSW parliament earlier in November.

Representing Davis, Liam McKibbin told the online court hearing his client's pregnant partner was due to give birth to their son.

The pair have planned a home birth with a midwife at their Bondi residence.

Noting the "alleged disturbing conduct," the defence lawyer said it doesn't include a "specific physical threat of violence".

Opposing bail, prosecutor Kristen Wakefield said Davis' South Australian criminal history showed he is bailed to an address there.

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She said he was an unacceptable risk, noting failure to appear, danger posed to community safety, and the alleged offending occurring while on bail.

Wakefield said due to Telegram's wide audience, it would be very difficult for federal police to conduct compliance checks to ensure he wasn't continuing to offend.

Refusing the bail application, Covington said there was an unacceptable risk of Davis committing a serious offence and endangering community safety.

He will next appear before the court online on December 3.

Australian Federal Police National Security Investigations teams have arrested three people, including Davis, in the past week for allegedly harassing or threatening parliamentarians.

They include a Tamworth man, 29, issued a court attendance notice for allegedly sending online threats to an Australian high office holder, in addition to a 32-year-old Victorian man for allegedly using a carriage service to harass a politician.

AFP acting Assistant Commissioner Matthew Gale said 951 referrals had been made in the 2024/2025 financial year over threats to federal politicians.

"The AFP is very concerned, and our national security investigations teams, alongside with our specialist protective command, are working hand in glove with our federal parliamentarians to make sure that we provide them with the assurances and the safety that are required," he told reporters in Canberra.

"Threats against federal parliamentarians is a significant issue for us."

He said there had been year-on-year increases in threats, with a 63 per cent rise over the last four years.

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Former Labor cabinet minister Mark Dreyfus has urged the Albanese government to form a republic and introduce four-year electoral terms.

The former attorney-general, who was demoted to the backbench in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's second-term cabinet reshuffle, gave a speech on Labor and the Constitution at the Australian National University in Canberra last night.

He spoke highly of the party's long history of pursuing referendums and recognised the Whitlam, Fisher and Hawke governments for their efforts in achieving constitutional change. 

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The Isaacs MP then called on his colleagues to similarly push the boundaries and renew the campaign to establish an Australian republic.

"Australia and Australians have changed in many ways over the past quarter century," he told the audience.

"In my view, it is time, past time, for Australia to break its residual constitutional ties with the United Kingdom and its monarchy."

Establishing a republic would mean an Australian would replace King Charles as the head of state.

It would also make Australia independent from the United Kingdom.

There has been a long push for Australia to become a republic, following a failed referendum on the topic in 1999.

Dreyfus had used his inaugural speech in the House of Representatives when he was elected in 2008 to say he would vote in favour of amending the constitution to establish one.

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Dreyfus last night said Australia's failure to become independent from the monarch would leave early Labor figures "mightily disappointed".

Albanese has refrained from pursuing any more referendums after the failed Voice to Parliament campaign in 2023.

He most recently dismissed calls for a referendum to establish a republic after his private meeting with King Charles in Scotland in September.

"I think I've made it clear that I wanted to hold one referendum while I was prime minister, and we did that," he said at the time.

Albanese added that the monarch was "very interested in Australia". 

Dreyfus acknowledged the party-wide dismay of the failure of the Voice, admitting that it was "one of the greatest disappointments of my public life".

But he said Labor has "never given up" on referendums and hoped that the party could "return to the process of formally amending our constitution".

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Dreyfus also called for the federal government to adopt four-year terms "sooner rather than later".

"All Australian states and territories have adopted four-year terms," he said.

"We are also an outlier in world terms, with just six of 186 nations with active legislatures having three-year terms."

Albanese has supported the "common sense" notion of a four-year national term but said he required bipartisan support.

Former prime minister John Howard earlier this month called on Opposition Leader Sussan Ley to work with Albanese on establishing four-year terms.

"It's ludicrous you've got four-year terms in all the states, but the national parliament doesn't. It's just crazy," he told the ABC.

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A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for USD $54.7 million (AUD $84.9 million) and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction.

The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed – titled “El sueño (La cama)” or in English, “The Dream (The Bed)” – surpassed the record held by Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1," which sold for USD $44.4 million (AUD $68.9 million) in 2014.

The sale at Sotheby's in New York also topped Kahlo's own auction record for a work by a Latin American artist.

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The 1949 painting “Diego and I,” depicting the artist and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, went for USD $34.9 million (AUD 54.2 million) in 2021.

Her paintings are reported to have sold privately for even more.

The self-portrait is among the few Kahlo pieces that have remained in private hands outside Mexico, where her body of work has been declared an artistic monument.

Her works in both public and private collections within the country cannot be sold abroad or destroyed.

The painting comes from a private collection, whose owner has not been disclosed, and is legally eligible for international sale.

Some art historians have scrutinised the sale for cultural reasons, while others have raised concern that the painting – last exhibited publicly in the late 1990s – could again disappear from public view after the auction.

It has already been requested for upcoming exhibitions in cities including New York, London and Brussels.

The buyer's identity was not disclosed.

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The piece depicts Kahlo asleep in a wooden, colonial-style bed that floats in the clouds.

She is draped in a golden blanket and entangled in crawling vines and leaves.

Above the bed lies a skeleton figure wrapped in dynamite.

Kahlo vibrantly and unsparingly depicted herself and events from her life, which was upended by a bus accident at 18.

She started to paint while bedridden, underwent a series of painful surgeries on her damaged spine and pelvis, then wore casts until her death in 1954 at age 47.

During the years Kahlo was confined to her bed, she came to view it as a bridge between worlds as she explored her mortality.

Before the auction, her great-niece, Mara Romeo Kahlo, celebrated the significance of the upcoming sale during a recent interview with The Associated Press in Mexico City.

“I'm very proud that she's one of the most valued women, because really, what woman doesn't identify with Frida, or what person doesn't?" she said.

"I think everyone carries a little piece of my aunt in their heart.”

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The painting was the star of a sale of more than 100 surrealist works by artists including Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning.

Kahlo resisted being labeled a surrealist, a style of art that's dreamlike and centres on a fascination with the unconscious mind.

“I never painted dreams,” she once said. “I painted my own reality.”

In its catalog note, Sotheby’s said the painting “offers a spectral meditation on the porous boundary between sleep and death.”

“The suspended skeleton is often interpreted as a visualization of her anxiety about dying in her sleep, a fear all too plausible for an artist whose daily existence was shaped by chronic pain and past trauma,” the catalog notes.

Earlier this week, a Gustav Klimt painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold at Sotheby's for USD $236.4 million (AUD $366.9 million).

Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” became one of the most expensive pieces of artwork ever sold at auction, second only to Leonardo da Vinci's “Salvator Mundi” at USD $450 million ($698.4 million) the record-holder over all and among male artists.

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