shorten in trouble again

Bill Shorten based his HSU application to the Federal Court on the contents of a FWA Report 7 days before he was allowed to access it.



Bill Shorten says he made the decision to appoint an administrator to the HSU because the union had fallen into dysfunctionality. How did he know it was dysfunctional? Because of what was in the Fair Work Australia report. He was not supposed to know about the results of the independent inquiry into Craig Thomson and the HSU until 7 May, 2012 when the rest of us found out. But he went to court for an Administrator on 30 April, fully informed by the contents of the FWA Report.

Someone will be in a lot of trouble.

On 12 April 2012 Bill Shorten retained Val Gostencnik.

On 26 April 2012 Bill Shorten decided to make a "very rare" application to the Federal Court for an Administrator to be appointed to the HSU because of its "current dysfunction". Here is his announcement.

On 30 April 2012 Val Gostencnik swore this affidavit on Shorten's behalf. It states an Administrator should be appointed because the union had ceased to function effectively.

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