The Royal Commission into Trade Unions delivered the final report of its inquiry into the level of corruption occurring within Australia’s Trade Unions this week. In his final assessment, Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon’s referred to 45 cases that held the potential for criminal charges or civil action to claim that the level of corruption was wide spread and “not a case of a few rotten apples spoiling the whole barrel.”
However, The Commission failed to find any adverse findings against Labor Leader and former head of the The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), Bill Shorten. Nevertheless, Mr. Shorten and the ACTU have swiftly rejected the findings, pointing to Justice Heydon’s perceived links to the Liberal National Government and his relationship to recently ousted Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who launched the the Commission in May of 2014.
