Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, upon notice, on 6 November 2012:

With reference to the Minister's interview with Mr Paul Bongiorno on Meet the Press, on 26 August 2012, in which the Minister stated that 'trade unions in Australia – with notable exceptions, but very few exceptions – are honestly run', can the Minister provide a full list of these notable exceptions.

Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

The notable exceptions I was referring to during my interview with Mr Bongiorno were the NSW registered HSUeast and those branches of the federally registered Health Services Union to which Justice Flick of the Federal Court appointed an administrator in his decision of 21 June 2012.