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April 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The industrial watchdog is expected to reveal the broad findings of its investigation into the Health Services Union’s (HSU) national office, and the union’s former boss Craig Thomson, on Tuesday.
Fair Work Australia has yet to guarantee all of the details of the investigation – which in part looked at alleged credit card misuse by Mr Thomson, who now sits as a federal Labor MP – will be publicly released.
FWA kicked off an inquiry into the union’s finances in April 2009 but it became a fully fledged investigation in March 2010.
It has been alleged the credit card in the name of Mr Thomson, as the union’s national secretary from 2002 to 2007, was used to pay for prostitutes, lavish meals and cash withdrawals.
Mr Thomson, who represents the NSW seat of Dobell and has been in and out of hospital with illness during the past fortnight, denies any wrongdoing.
FWA, which examined more than 6500 union documents in its investigation, also investigated claims against other HSU officials, Michael Williamson and Kathy Jackson.
FWA general manager Bernadette O’Neill has several options available to her if she finds workplace laws have been contravened.
These include taking civil matters to the Federal Court or referring criminal matters to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
NSW and Victorian police also are investigating aspects of the union’s financial activities.
Fair Work Australia allowed a previous report, into the HSU’s Victoria No 1 branch, to be publicly released by being tabled in the Senate.
From that report, 25 workplace law contraventions were found against three former HSU officials from Victoria, who will face Federal Court, but no criminal matters are being pursued.
Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten told reporters in Canberra on Monday he was unaware of the timing of the findings being released.
“Fair Work Australia’s processes are independent,” he said.
“As for what is in the report and the timing that is up to Fair Work Australia.”
Opposition workplace relations spokesman Senator Eric Abetz said the report should be publicly released immediately.
Senator Abetz said FWA, which represents some of the lowest-paid workers in the health sector, should also provide its documents to police.
“The low-paid members of the Health Services Union have been kept in the dark for far too long,” he said.
“They have a right to know the extent of how their union funds have been spent and on what they were spent on.”
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