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Planet Jackson : power, greed & unions / Brad Norington.
Lippincott Library HD6892 .N67 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norington, Brad, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jackson, Kathie.
- Health Services Union (Australia).
- Australia. Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption.
- Australia.
- Misconduct in office.
- Whistle blowing.
- Embezzlement investigation.
- Labor unions--Corrupt practices.
- Labor unions.
- Finance.
- Labor unions--Australia--Finance.
- Labor unions--Officials and employees--Australia.
- Labor unions--Officials and employees.
- Labor unions--Corrupt practices--Australia.
- Embezzlement investigation--Australia.
- Whistle blowing--Australia.
- Misconduct in office--Australia.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 328 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Planet Jackson : power, greed and unions
- Planet Jackson
- Power, greed and unions
- Place of Publication:
- Carlton, Victoria Melbourne University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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 men members' money on international holidays, fashion, jewellery, a mortgage, and ever 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Parasite 1
- 2 Firebrand 12
- 3 Big Kahuna 25
- 4 Sidekick 38
- 5 Tiffany's Girls 49
- 6 Lovable Rogue 64
- 7 Dirty Tricks 74
- 8 Complete Confidence 88
- 9 Picked the Wrong Girl 104
- 10 Amicable Divorce 114
- 11 Delusions 123
- 12 'Meet Me in the Car Park' 139
- 13 Dracula 150
- 14 Jail Time 162
- 15 Inspector Plod 174
- 16 Ambush 190
- 17 Charity Shag 198
- 18 Other People's Money 204
- 19 Moonlighting 215
- 20 The Tenth Club 225
- 21 Absent Defendant 237
- 22 Trojan Horse 248
- 23 Surreality TV 260
- 24 Iceberg 265
- 25 Denial 280
- 26 The Party's Over 294.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780522870336
- 0522870333
- OCLC:
- 937650511
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