Recall that the former HSU Official Val Gostencnik was acting for Fair Work Australia in its investigation of the HSU.   At the same time Gostencnik took a brief from Bill Shorten to act for Shorten in his application that an Administrator (Michael Moore) be appointed to the HSU.  

Below is the email from Bernadette O'Neill sending Val Gostencnik the FWA Investigation Report and all its Annexures.   Note it was highly confidential and no-one, including the Gillard Government and its ministers was supposed to have access to the contents of the report until 7 May 2012.

The date Gostencnik got it was 3 April 2012.

Here is the evidence of Daniel Mookhey (TWU Apparatchik) as to what took place on 4 April 2012, the day after Shorten's lawyer received the confidential HSU Report from FWA.   He describes a meeting with Tony Sheldon, Sam Dastyari and others that took place on 4 April.

A.   That was perhaps best described as somewhat of a

        12       crisis that was occupying tremendous public attention,

        13       parliamentary attention; the attention of regulators,

        14       amongst many others.  The meeting that happened in April 4

        15       was very much one of the earlier stages or acts of this

        16       particular crisis and therefore, I think you'll find, that

        17       the minute is reflective of the fact that the directors

        18       weren't necessarily aware of how the campaign was to evolve

        19       because they weren't necessarily aware of how the crisis

        20       was to be resolved.  In terms of the early element of

        21       partial funding, it is clear at this point in time that

        22       predominantly to bring the movement to some element of

        23       resolution on this, to remove the sort of people who are

        24       now proven and now found to have been corrupt, who are

        25       partaking in those campaigns, that the whole of the

        26       movement - and when I say "whole of the movement", I mean

        27       the entirety of the labour movement - had to demonstrate a

        28       sort of mainstream response to this particular crisis,

        29       specifically the capacity for the union's rules, as well as

        30       union elections in general to deliver change.  The

        31       'Our HSU' campaign very much had that view and very much

        32       campaigned on that view, and sought support from the

        33       entirety of the labour movement because it was thought that

        34       the entirety of the labour movement had to demonstrate its

        35       abhorrence of what had happened at that union and its

        36       desire to rid the union of those people.  The 'Our HSU'

        37       campaign explicitly sought and went to every single person

        38       that we possibly could have in respect of the wider labour

        39       movement seeking their support for the campaign.  So when

        40       I say that the campaign was only ever partially funded,

        41       what I mean by that is we put the emphasis first, and our

        42       priority first was on the campaign, and in building support

        43       for the campaign and building support for the change that

        44       was necessary in the HSU before we necessarily prioritised

        45       how we paid for it.

He speaks of the "crisis" that had become clear to the Labor movement by 4 April 2012.

Here now is the conversation between Gerard Hayes (the beneficiary of the McLean Forum money) and Michael Williamson, advising Williamson about Shorten's decision to apply for an Administrator.

 Here's the transcript, page one below: