Published: October 10, 2019
Judge rules investigation wasn’t politically motivated, but that suspicion the union breached rules was no reason to conduct the raid
The Australian Workers’ Union has successfully challenged the union regulator’s decision to have police raid its offices in Melbourne and Sydney but fell short in its attempt to show the investigation was motivated by an improper purpose.
On Friday the federal court justice Mordecai Bromberg rejected the AWU’s position that raids on their offices in October 2017 by the Registered Organisations Commission (ROC) were made to “embarrass or politically harm” then-opposition leader Bill Shorten.
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