The AWU scandal involving Prime Minister Julia Gillard's ex-boyfriend is irrelevant to Australian politics today, writes Ben Eltham. Just what was going on in the Australian Workers Union (AWU) in the ...

When you order koi jello at a new Chinese restaurant, there are many things you might expect to see on your plate. Perhaps the dish will turn out to be a version of the jellied carp your Jewish ...

Federal Small Business Minister Michaelia Cash will face a courtroom in Melbourne this week, in what's likely to be a crucial test for the Government and the union regulator it set up in 2017.

1987: Julia Gillard is employed by Slater & Gordon, a Melbourne-based law firm, as a solicitor and is subsequently promoted in 1990 to the role of salaried partner of the firm. Late 1991: Gillard, who ...

What did Bruce Wilson tell Slater & Gordon that forced it to drop both him and the AWU as its clients? Did he reveal his fraud? And how does this square with Julia Gillard's latest excuse for not ...

A federal watchdog has ended an investigation of a major union that counts senior Labor figure Bill Shorten among its former heads after finding there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute its officials ...

BILL Shorten has called on Malcolm Turnbull to sack Michaelia Cash for misleading the Senate over the AWU raid scandal, as Labor claimed her version did not add up. Labor MP Tony Burke called on the ...

According to the Prime Minister, she has done nothing wrong – her only mistake was to be "naïve". That admitted naivety was in relation to her then boyfriend, Bruce Moreton Wilson – the once mighty ...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard answered questions about the AWU affair at a press conference yesterday. AAP/Alan Porrit The recent drama about Julia Gillard’s activities on behalf of one faction of the ...

Employers will be required to train an Australian worker for every skilled migrant they take on, and the migrant will be made a default member of the relevant union to guard against exploitation, ...