ELEANOR HALL: The Australian Crime Commission has found that global syndicates of criminals gouge about $15 billion a year from Australia’s economy. Launching the Commission’s latest report on organised crime, the Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare warned that digital technology is changing the face of international crime and that national law enforcement authorities are struggling […]
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Craig Thomson MP – Who’s paying his legal bills? Which union is it?
April 21st, 2013 Becky
Federal MP Craig Thomson has an estimated legal bill of $300,000 for his current criminal and civil proceedings which he is defending. So who is paying the bill? It is only a couple of years ago that the NSW Labor party had to pay $350,000 in legal bills for Mr Thomson so he did not go bankrupt and get […]