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With the long anticipated Royal Commission, the ALP should jettison the moribund trade unions

5 April 2014

9:00 AM

5 April 2014

9:00 AM

Here we go again. The Royal Commission into trade union ‘slush funds’, commencing 9 April, will be the sixth into trade unions. The first three investigated wharf and maritime unions, the last two, building unions. The earlier union inquiries essentially concerned misbehaviour in the marketplace. The slush fund inquiry concerns alleged corruption among officials.

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Gary Johns, a federal Labor MP from 1987 to 1996, was a minister in the Keating government. 

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