ACTU computer records suggest a single person sat the online right of entry permit tests for six HSU Victorian No 1 branch officials according to counsel assisting the Heydon Royal Commission, but the branch's secretary Diana Asmar has flatly denied she gave instructions for such a practice to occur.
NSW ALP secretary Sam Dastyari tipped off some officials in the HSU that the Federal Labor government planned to appoint an administrator to the union's East branch in early 2012, the Heydon Royal Commission has heard.
Officials and organisers of the HSU's Victorian No 1 branch were issued right of entry permits after their online tests were completed by other employees of the union, the Heydon Royal Commission has been told.
TWU national secretary Tony Sheldon has told the Heydon Royal Commission that he has "no recollection" of asking his Victorian secretary Wayne Mader to contribute $20,000 from a state-based fighting fund to support the incumbent leader of the ETU in NSW.
The Heydon Royal Commission has heard that a campaign fund associated with the TWU's national office and NSW branch contributed up to $200,000 to a group who ousted the leadership of the Queensland branch in 2010, and a further $120,000 to HSU and Flight Attendants Association election candidates two years later.
TWU Vic/Tas branch secretary Wayne Mader has told the Heydon Royal Commission today that officials from his branch made donations to candidates in HSU and ETU elections out of their own re-election fund.
A former SDA Queensland branch secretary - now a federal Labor senator - has taken steps to repay tax deductions he claimed on contributions paid to an internal union "fighting fund", the Heydon Royal Commission has been told.
The Heydon Royal Commission has called former SDA Queensland state secretary and current Labor senator Chris Ketter, as it continues to examine unions' use of funds for political activities.
Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon has warned CFMEU Queensland branch secretary Michael Ravbar that his view that money from a building industry redundancy trust fund belonged to workers regardless of the "corporate angle" was "reckless", and that trustee directors in his position needed to be careful.
