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April 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Finance Minister Penny Wong has rejected claims the independent industrial watchdog is protecting the Labor government in its handling an investigation into the Health Services Union (HSU).
Fair Work Australia (FWA) has referred its 1100 page yet-to-be-publicly released investigation report into the HSU national office to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to consider possible criminal charges.
The investigation looked at the union’s financial management under former general secretary and now Labor MP Craig Thomson.
It’s alleged Mr Thomson, who was the union’s general secretary from 2002 to 2007, misused a credit card for prostitutes, lavish meals and cash withdrawals – allegations he has vehemently denied.
HSU boss Kathy Jackson says there’s “an appearance” that the FWA has been deliberately trying to protect the Labor government by not naming names.
But Finance Minister Penny Wong has rejected Ms Jackson’s allegations.
“This government and its ministers have repeatedly made clear that these processes are independent end of story,” she told ABC Television on Tuesday night.
Senator Wong said FWA and the director of public prosecutors should be free to pursue their work “free from political advocacy.”
She dismissed claims the government has a tainted vote in parliament, as opposition leader Abbott “running another slogan.”
Senator Wong said as a former lawyer she understood the importance of people receiving the presumption of innocence.
The Gillard government has a one vote majority in the lower house.
FWA’s general manager Bernadette O’Neill, in a statement released on Tuesday, said the report included 181 contraventions of workplace laws, by the HSU’s national office reporting unit, three unnamed former or current officials and one individual who was not an HSU official.
FWA began inquiries into the HSU’s national office in April 2009 and kicked off a fully fledged investigation in March 2010.
AAP lpm/
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