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Morals irrelevant as court slashes Thomson convictions

In a rare win for beleaguered former HSU national secretary Craig Thomson, the Victorian County Court has today thrown out 80% of his convictions for unauthorised expenditure of union funds, noting the irrelevance in a court of law of whether he spent the money in "a brothel or Bunnings".

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