Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

That's exactly what Mr Shorten needs to explain: why did the income protection insurance scheme that workers were signed up to by the AWU over the period 2004 to 2007 make 20 different payments from IUS Holdings to the AWU worth a total of $566,116? Mr Shorten needs to explain what these funds were used for, despite the stated purpose of the actual fund itself. You see, this is the problem with those on the other side. They're not interested in regulation, they're not interested in transparency; they just like to funnel money from employee entitlement funds directly to unions. In some instances—Senator, you'll like this—they built houses on the water in Tasmania for their own purpose, when the money should have been going to the employees in the fund.