Labor’s newest recruit, Senator Kimberley Kitching, helped piece together shredded documents on the floor of the Health Services Union (HSU), in an attempt to see a factional enemy brought to justice, according to one of her parliamentary Labor colleagues. Member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby said Ms Kitching should be commended for helping clean up the trouble-plagued union, by leading hospital workers to search for incriminating evidence against former HSU secretary Kathy Jackson. “They arrived at the union in their South Melbourne headquarters, found these bags full of rubbish and reconstituted — like in the movie Argo — all of the shredded material, which the trade union royal commission didn’t want to originally receive,” Mr Danby said. “It was all the material on Kathy Jackson’s [alleged] malfeasance [and] the corruption of the union.” Ms Jackson is now facing dozens of charges of theft and deception over her time as head of the HSU.
