{"id":89104,"date":"2024-07-18T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T00:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=89104"},"modified":"2024-07-18T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T00:25:55","slug":"secretary-of-the-aust-council-of-trade-unions-sally-mcmanus-says-we-had-no-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=89104","title":{"rendered":"Secretary of the Aust Council of Trade Unions Sally Mcmanus says we had no idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sally McManus said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How come the media needed a nine-month investigation? How come the police haven\u2019t been talking about this? How come you\u2019re expecting that we would know that, when the people with all of the resources, all of the resources weren\u2019t saying it?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s one thing for people to say oh we knew it or this or that, or why didn\u2019t they go to the police\u2019? That\u2019s what I would say if we had known, if we had of known there were alleged criminal elements in that union, that\u2019s exactly what we would have done. And now that we do, we will fight it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"522\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GSukY2qbsAA2_z3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GSukY2qbsAA2_z3.png 522w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GSukY2qbsAA2_z3-300x283.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sally McManus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Some people in that union have been putting their own personal interests before the rest of the movement for quite a while, but the average union member in our country is a 46-year-old nurse.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s why we kick those people out and we will continue to uphold that, every single day. Australia needs a strong principled trade union.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s why we kick those people out and we will continue to uphold that, every single day. Australia needs a strong principled trade union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":89106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7391,3356],"tags":[11619,11500,11620,8723],"class_list":["post-89104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-bribe-and-corruption-probe","category-corruption","tag-actu","tag-cfmeu","tag-sally-mcmanus","tag-serious-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89107,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89104\/revisions\/89107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}