Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

under the offences of solicitation of a corrupt commission and giving of a corrupt commission. One particularly egregious example concerned a payment of $100,000 from Thiess John Holland to AWU Victoria in financial year 2005-06—so, $100,000 went from Thiess John Holland to the AWU in financial year 2005-06. In the same year, 2005-06, a sum of $99,426 was donated by AWU Victoria to the ALP in Victoria—so, only $574 difference, which I guess was a handling fee or a small administrative charge taken by the AWU in handing that $100,000 on to the ALP in Victoria. This was the only year in which such a donation was made when one person held the positions of National Secretary of the Australian Workers Union, Victorian Secretary of the Australian Workers Union, Victorian president of the Australian Labor Party and—just for good measure in that financial year, holding all three of those positions when that donation was made—was also preselected for a very safe seat in Victoria to represent the Labor Party in the federal parliament.

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