Brumbies rugby union team chief executive Michael Jones has resigned a week after the ACT Supreme Court extended an injunction under whistleblower laws that stopped the club from dismissing him over public interest disclosures.
The Federal Police have decided not to press charges over a former ACT ministerial staffer providing a briefing to CFMEU leader Dean Hall on a top-level meeting with police.
The Federal Police are evaluating allegations that the chief-of-staff to the ACT Police Minister, Joy Burch, briefed CFMEU leader Dean Hall about a top-level meeting with police.
The CFMEU has launched legal action against the Australian Federal Police, alleging that police attached to the Heydon Royal Commission conducted an unlawful raid on its offices last month.
The Federal Circuit Court has criticised United Voice's presentation of an underpayment claim as "weak", "poorly presented" and lacking "relevant and basic detail" and added that its reliance on "in-house legal work" had put the union at risk of an abuse of process finding.
Three of the four young men who died during the former Labor government’s home insulation rollout had not completed training in ceiling insulation installation, the royal commission into the stimulus program has heard, while the head of the inquiry has warned counsel not to cover old ground.
