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Kathy Jackson

August 2024

Mark Irving represented the Health Services Union at the royal commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption in 2014.

Kathy Jackson’s ‘charity shag’ to administer CFMEU

Melbourne silk Mark Irving is a man deeply familiar with the toss and tumble of union politics.

June 2023

Former Victorian MP Louise Staley will be the new president of the HR Nicholls Society.

HR Nicholls Society resurrected to combat Labor’s workplace laws

Canberra’s shake-up of workplace laws has sparked the re-emergence of the long-dormant HR Nicholls Society, with a former Liberal MP, Louise Staley, at the helm.

November 2020

Kathy Jackson.

Labor silent on Kathy Jackson's fall from grace

Following her conviction last week for stealing money from the mostly low-paid HSU members, Kathy Jackson is now just as big a crook as those she exposed.

November 2020

Kathy Jackson

From courageous whistleblower to convicted criminal

Former union boss Kathy Jackson once said she was no Joan of Arc – how true that turned out to be.

Kathy Jackson was warned the suspended sentence would "hang over your head".

Kathy Jackson avoids jail for defrauding union

The Victoria County Court sentenced the ex-union boss to two years jail for defrauding her union of more than $100,000 but suspended the sentence due to her plea of guilty.

October 2020

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Kathy Jackson and the failure of the union movement

The union leader and her husband were the Duchess of York and Prince Andrew of the Victorian Labor Party: always seen, celebrated and slightly dodgy.

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Kathy Jackson pleads guilty to $100,000 fraud

Former Health Services Union national secretary Kathy Jackson has pleaded guilty to fraud against the union she once ran.

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