Allegations of billion dollar corruption on Victoria’s Big Build come under renewed scrutiny on tonight’s 60 Minutes, as Nick McKenzie examines why years of warnings have failed to stop the alleged wrongdoing.
Also coming up, Adam Hegarty investigates Australia’s booming peptide craze, exploring the risks behind the black market health trend attracting a growing number of believers.
BUILDING BAD
The Big Build in Victoria is a massive infrastructure scheme, largely financed by the public purse. It should be a source of massive pride, especially for Victorian Labor Premier Jacinta Allan.
Instead, it’s a massive scam, one of the largest in Australian history, where gangland figures and other crooks have ripped off billions of dollars from the taxpayer. Of course, claims of corruption on the Big Build are not new.
On 60 Minutes, and in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Nick McKenzie has been reporting on the blatant wrongdoing for two years, but now he has uncovered why very little has been done to stop it.
Reported by Nick McKenzie.
AN INJECTION OF TRUTH
For the believers, peptides are a modern medical miracle, the easy answer to so many health concerns. Want to lose weight? No worries, there’s a peptide for that. Need to slow the ageing process? Take a peptide. It’s the same if you want to heal faster from injuries, get shinier hair or even a better tan.
As Adam Hegarty reports, there are some very serious caveats though. Most peptides in Australia are illegal, and only available on the black market. As well, many doctors and scientists warn not enough research has been done on them yet.
But for anyone who thinks that’s enough to slow down their uptake, this story is both an intriguing, and frightening, injection of truth.
Reported by Adam Hegarty and Produced by Sandra Odorisio & Sheree Gibson.
