Kathy Jackson admits paying ex-husband $50,000 from union slush fund

By Anna Patty and Ben Schneiders
Updated July 31 2014 - 10:14am, first published July 30 2014 - 5:40pm
"Ambushed" by royal commission: Kathy Jackson.  Photo: Louise Kennerley
"Ambushed" by royal commission: Kathy Jackson. Photo: Louise Kennerley

Health Services Union leader Kathy Jackson used money from a union slush fund to write her former husband a cheque for $50,000 as she admitted numerous inconsistencies in her previous evidence about a large payment from a cancer hospital to her union.