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Planet Jackson

Power, Greed and Unions

Brad Norington

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English
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
01 August 2016
Kathy Jackson was hailed as a heroine for blowing the whistle on the million-dollar fraud of Michael Williamson, the corrupt boss of the Health Services Union (HSU). She endured bitter personal attacks from enemies in the Labor Party and the union movement.

But what if Jackson was just as corrupt as Williamson? Or worse?

While Jackson was being portrayed as a Joan of Arc figure, she was spending vast amounts of her own union members' money on international holidays,

fashion, jewellery, a mortgage, and even part of a divorce settlement.

Nothing, it seems, was off limits. This is the real HSU story-the staggering misuse of the union dues of some of the lowest paid workers in Australia. The HSU scandal is more than a dark morality tale marked by high drama

and farce. It exposes deep problems at the heart of the union movement and the Labor Party- tribalism, nepotism, a misplaced sense of entitlement and the misuse of other peoples' money.

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Imprint:   MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 154mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   444g
ISBN:   9780522870336
ISBN 10:   0522870333
Pages:   277
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Brad Norington has more than 30 yearsexperience as a journalist writing for The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald. He was The Australian's Washington correspondent during the first term of the Obama administration then chief reporter in Sydney, where he tracked the real story behind disgraced corruption whistleblower Kathy Jackson and her partner Michael Lawler. He has written extensively on politics and industrial relations, and is the author of several books.

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