Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, upon notice, on 6 November 2012:

Will the Government intervene in the case General Manager of Fair Work Australia v Craig Thomson; if not, why not.

Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

These proceedings arise from the General Manager's investigation into the national office of the Health Services Union, which concluded in March 2012.

This is a matter for the General Manager of Fair Work Australia, her legal advisers and ultimately for the Court. Additional Commonwealth involvement is unwarranted.