Why has Bill Shorten still not given the royal commission his answer? When will Bill Shorten answer a request for information from the Royal Commission into trade union corruption? One scandal the royal commission is investigating is the use of a slush fund by Julia Gillard's then boyfriend and client, AWU state secretary Bruce Wilson, to rip off $380.000. Eventually the AWU discovered Wilson had been using an association misleadingly called the Australian Workers Union Workers Reform Association for his ripoffs. But rather than go to the police, it paid Wilson a $55,000 redundancy to quietly go away. Counsel assisting the royal commission, Jeremy Stoljar, on Friday noted: [AWU official Bob] Kernohan was appalled by what he had discovered on receipt of the court documents. In particular he was appalled by the fact that redundancy payments had been made to Mr Wilson and others. He deposes that he had a conversation with Mr Shorten and others in which he said words to the following effect: I told them it was a bloody disgrace that they received redundancy payments whilst they were internally investigated for fraud. Mr Kernohan deposed that Mr Shorten (then a junior official in the AWU) told him in essence not to take it any further and that âwe are all just moving on. At the time of writing these submissions evidence had been sought but not yet received from Mr Shorten on this topic. When will Shorten give his account of that conversation to the royal commission? And on oath?