TIMELINE OF KATHY JACKSON'S FALL FROM GRACE
2008
* January - takes over from Craig Thomson as Health Services Union general secretary and finds Melbourne office accounts in disarray
* May - Audit raises concerns about evidence of misuse of union funds by Craig Thomson
* December - Instructs lawyers to engage tax specialists BDO Kendall to investigate
2011
* Formally complains to NSW police about corruption by Thomson and HSU national president Michael Williamson
* Admitted to psychiatric hospital, a week after finding a shovel on her doorstep in an apparent death threat
2014
* March - Thomson jailed for a year for misusing HSU funds. After appeal he is convicted of theft but cleared of obtaining financial advantage by deception
* Williamson jailed for at least five years for "leeching" HSU of almost $1 million and recruiting others to hinder police
* June - royal commission into union corruption holds hearing into HSU
* Jackson denies misusing more than $1 million in union funds
* Commission hears Jackson set up an unaudited fund, using a $250,000 payment to the union, and used it as a slush fund, or as she put it, a fighting fund for union campaigning and administrative expenses
* August - Ex-husband Jeff Jackson tells commission he received $50,000 from the union as part of their divorce settlement
* Jackson loses bid to stop cross-examination by union barrister Mark Irving, with whom she had an affair 21 years earlier; she tells media it was a "charity shag"
* Accuses Bill Shorten of being in a group out to get her for exposing corruption at HSU
* November - Federal Court trial put off due to Jackson's health as HSU sues her for over $2.5 million, alleging she misused $1.3 million
2015
* February - Formally replaced as HSU national secretary by Chris Brown
* June 22 - Loses bid to stop civil case; argues she was targeted by union and ALP figures for bringing down Thomson and that documents vital to her case were lost or destroyed by HSU
* June 24 - HSU seeks to freeze her assets; court hears she has none left and is running out of money
* June 29 - Hearing put off after Jackson declares bankruptcy
* July 7 - Justice Richard Tracey says trial can proceed without her
* July 9 - HSU closes its case
* August 19 - Justice Tracey says the "evidence substantially supported the claims made by the HSU" and orders Jackson pay more than $1.3 million in damages for her misuse. Plus an extra $67,000 in over paid salary
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