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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.
The CFMEU's CG&E division has confirmed that its national and Queensland president, David Hanna, has left the union but has declined to explain his departure.
The Federal Court has ordered former HSU national secretary Kathy Jackson to repay about $1.4 million to her old union, in an important judgment on the conduct of officers in registered organisations.
Under arrangements agreed to today between lawyers acting for the ACTU and counsel assisting the inquiry, unions will have until 2pm this Thursday to file written submissions, if they want to continue with the application to have Commissioner Heydon disqualified from presiding over the Royal Commission.
