Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Work­place Relations, Senator Evans. I refer the minister to the ongoing and seemingly endless investigation by Fair Work Australia into the activities of the member for Dobell when he was the National Secretary of the Health Services Union. Is the minister aware of statements made yesterday on 2UE by the National Secretary of the Health Services Union, Mrs Kathy Jackson? She said:

We expected this matter would be resolved earlier one way or another. It would have been far better for the union if it had been … It surprises not just me but the whole executive that Fair Work have taken so long.

Minister, the union first reported this matter to the former industrial relations commission before Fair Work Australia even existed. Why has the investigation taken so long?