Evidence turns to some of the financial arrangements of the Queensland union and a \u201cservice agreement\u201d between two technical entities: the Queensland and Northern Territory branch of the federally registered union and a Queensland-registered union.<\/p>\n
CFMEU administrator Mark Irving says the result of this was the state\u2019s 15,000-20,000 members \u2013 and their $40 million to $50 million in fees \u2013 were paid to the state registered body instead of the federal one.<\/p>\n
This meant the members were no longer financial members of the federal registered body and would not have had voting rights, Irving says, in a move he believes is contrary to union rules, \u201cand in my view, contrary to law\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe arrangement ended up in a position whereby if there had been a vote, the only people who would have been eligible to vote were the 160 people up in the Northern Territory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Irving says he believes the agreement was entered into by ousted leaders Michael Ravbar and Jade Ingham, without advising the national union governance body and without legal advice, in the days after the 2020 union elections in which themselves and their \u201cteam\u201d were elected unopposed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI received legal advice about correcting the whole thing,\u201d Irving says. A range of investment properties then appeared to be acquired by the state registered union after the agreement was reached.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m giving you information based on my recollection of financial transactions \u2026 [but] there\u2019s a vast amount of documentary evidence which will set this all out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have formed a view about these transactions and I have formed a view about the legality of those transactions,\u201d Irving continues, saying this view would inform his action regarding the expulsion of Ravbar and Ingham from the union and any further action or referrals to external bodies required.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf one wanted to keep their power intact and unchallenged \u2026 one might want to create an impenetrable fortress into which the national organisation could not reach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evidence turns to some of the financial arrangements of the Queensland union and a \u201cservice agreement\u201d between two…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":391539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-391538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115580370143359409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}