Fair Work Australia (FWA) general manager Bernadette O’Neill is standing by her organisation’s report on the Health Services Union’s national office and former union boss Craig Thomson.
Mr Thomson accused FWA, in a speech to parliament on Monday, of conducting a biased investigation and failing to interview key witnesses who would back his innocence.
Ms O’Neill says it would be “inappropriate” to comment on Mr Thomson’s speech.
“The report of the investigation into the Health Services Union national office prepared by my delegate, Mr Terry Nassios, speaks for itself,” she said in a statement on Thursday.
“These matters will be the subject of legal proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia and that is the appropriate forum in which to test the evidence and findings set out in the investigation report.”
Ms O’Neill said solicitors had been instructed to prepare documents for the Federal Court case, which will include 156 alleged contraventions against Mr Thomson identified in the investigation report.
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