Melbourne silk Mark Irving is a man deeply familiar with the toss and tumble of union politics.
A decade ago, Irving was tasked by the Health Services Union with cross-examining then-HSU officialat a royal commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption. Jackson spent more than an hour refusing to answer his questions, on the basis that she had had sex with him decades earlier.She and Irving had “a few too many drinks”, then went back to his place and made love on a barber’s chair.
Mark Irving represented the Health Services Union at the royal commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption in 2014.She denied she had brought up the romp as a royal commission distraction, before describing her liaison with the youthful Irving as a “charity shag”. No more was heard on the matter, though Jackson was six years later found guilty by a NSW court of misusing $103,000 of union funds on a luxury car and on holidays to Europe.
So, how bad can weeding out bikie infiltrations be, really? As far as colourful union antics go, Irving has certainly seen worse.
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