'Vanity project': critics round on ACTU's $25m campaign after Labor's election loss

Union leaders face tough questions on effectiveness of their campaign, which has been labelled ‘nebulous’ and ‘hubristic’

“We’ve got to look to our purpose – our purpose as unions is to change workers’ lives through collective action, we are not the campaigning arm of the ALP.”

So says Tim Kennedy, the National Union of Workers national secretary, one of a number of union officials and thought-leaders questioning whether the Australian Council of Trade Union’s estimated $25m spend on the election was worth it.

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