Taxpayers have spent at least $288,000 on Michaelia Cash’s legal bills during a civil trial over the raids on the Australian Workers Union.
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Michaelia Cash denies trying to discredit Shorten | Sky News AustraliaSenator Michaelia Cash has denied referring the Australian Workers' Union for investigation was a political move to discredit opposition leader Bill Shorten.\n\nThe Minister for Small and Family Business says she wrote to the Registered Organisations Commission following reports that the AWU had donated $100,000 to GetUp when Bill Shorten was the leader of the union.\n\nHowever, she claims she cannot recall conversations that she had with her staff after the raids.\n\nLabor MP Brendan O'Connor alleges Ms Cash and Human Services Minister Michael Keenan divvied up the tipping off of print and TV media about the raid prior to the police arriving at the headquarters.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Michaelia Cash denies trying to discredit Shorten | Sky News AustraliaSenator Michaelia Cash has denied referring the Australian Workers' Union for investigation was a political move to discredit opposition leader Bill Shorten.\n\nThe Minister for Small and Family Business says she wrote to the Registered Organisations Commission following reports that the AWU had donated $100,000 to GetUp when Bill Shorten was the leader of the union.\n\nHowever, she claims she cannot recall conversations that she had with her staff after the raids.\n\nLabor MP Brendan O'Connor alleges Ms Cash and Human Services Minister Michael Keenan divvied up the tipping off of print and TV media about the raid prior to the police arriving at the headquarters.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Investigation into AWU in 2017 not about Bill Shorten, Michaelia Cash saysConcerns about a breach of union rules prompted Senator Michaelia Cash to refer the AWU to an industry watchdog, she tells a Melbourne court, denying it was done because it involved Bill Shorten.
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Michaelia Cash claims Bill Shorten connection not reason for AWU raidsSenator Michaelia Cash tells court she had no knowledge of controversial police raids until she saw them on television.
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Convicted criminals could be transferred to Australia under medivac bill: Porter | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Attorney General Christian Porter says the medivac bill that passed parliament this week would allow people convicted of a serious criminal offence to travel to Australia for medical treatment.\n\nThe Medivac bill is designed to give doctors a greater say over whether asylum seekers in offshore detention centres can be flown to Australia for medical treatment, though still allows the Home Affairs minister to reject transfers on security grounds.\n\nNationals leader Michael McCormack was criticised on Thursday for claiming that the Home Affairs Minister would be unable to stop ‘spivs, and rapists and murderers' from being transferred to Australia for medical care.\n\nMr Porter told Sky News that under the amendments Labor put forward, an asylum seeker convicted, but not sentenced yet, of a serious offence can still be transferred to Australia.\n\nHowever, he could not nominate whether any asylum seeker currently housed on Manus Island or Nauru would fit this definition.\n\n\n
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People of 'bad character' can enter Australia due to medivac bill: Dutton | Sky News AustraliaHome Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says some of the asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru rejected by the US ‘could be eligible’ to come to Australia after the medivac bill passed parliament.\n\nAmerica has barred 265 asylum seekers from being able to enter the US under its ‘extreme vetting’ process.\n\nAt least 456 asylum seekers in offshore protection have been accepted under the deal first agreed upon by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and former President Barack Obama in 2016.\n\nMr Dutton told Sky News the medivac bill that Labor endorsed will see ‘people of bad character,' some of whom are part of the cohort rejected by the US, being able to enter Australia.\n\nThe medivac bill is designed to give doctors a greater say over whether asylum seekers in offshore detention centres can be flown to Australia for medical treatment, though still allows the Home Affairs minister to reject transfers on security grounds.\n\n\n\n
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Man who leaked AWU raids had been offered job in Michaelia Cash's office, court hearsA media advisor working for the Registered Organisations Commission — who had been offered a job in Senator Michaelia Cash's office — was the source of a leak about federal police raids on offices of the Australian Workers' Union, the Federal Court hears.
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Trump facing legal challenges over national emergency declaration | Sky News AustraliaUS President Donald Trump is facing legal challenges over his decision to use emergency powers to build a wall on the US border with Mexico. \n\nThe states of California and New York say they will take legal action to challenge the President’s move to bypass Congress to secure funding for the project. \n\nCongress authorised almost $US 1.4 billion to put a barrier on 55 miles of the southern border.\n\n\n
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