Union corruption report reeks of politics, and plenty of other alleged criminality

By The Canberra Times
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:26pm, first published December 19 2014 - 7:25pm

Politics has never been far removed from the Abbott government's Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption, and it was front and centre at the release of Commissioner Dyson Heydon's interim report on Friday.The two volumes – a third has been withheld because it deals with threats to witnesses – instanced a litany of alleged corruption, false testimony, and criminality (including blackmail and extortion). And it recommended that Commonwealth and state prosecutors consider laying charges in relation to the actions of 22 union officials and three unions.

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