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.
A plumber and drainage contractor paid $4000 for tickets to a BLF charity boxing night and recouped the cost from the building company Mirvac, the Heydon Royal Commission heard today.
"Tennis tragic" cops serve from the FWC over dismissal; Grain handling industry gets new modern award; and CFMEU expresses concern over Hanna allegations.
The Heydon Royal Commission is investigating whether major building company Mirvac paid part of the cost of building a luxury family home for the former national and Queensland president of the CFMEU's construction and general division, David Hanna.
The Senate this afternoon voted down Labor's motion to address the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove, with a request to remove Dyson Heydon as head of the royal commission into unions.
A telephone intercept played to the Heydon Royal Commission today referred to a former CFMEU organiser in the ACT, Halafihi "Fihi" Kivalu as having "touched" an employer for payments.
Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon has rejected union applications for him to stand down from the inquiry on the grounds of apprehended bias, while acknowledging they could still apply to a court to make such a ruling.
Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon will defer until Monday his ruling on whether to stand down as Royal Commissioner following a late request from the ACTU this afternoon.
