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The HSU's Victoria No 1 branch elections have been delayed until a federal court inquiry is held into the eligibility of two nominees.

The battle over shorter work rosters for fly-in, fly-out workers on resource projects looks set to spread to Chevron's $54 billion Gorgon LNG project.

The Federal Court has fined the HSU and three former Victorian officials a total of nearly $68,000 for financial governance irregularities, and, in a first under registered organisations legislation, ordered one of them to repay the union more than $26,000.

Former Victorian Solicitor-General John Cain will give evidence tomorrow and former prime minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday as the Heydon Royal Commission resumes its investigation of the alleged slush fund linked to the AWU in the early 1990s.

The CFMEU's construction and general division NSW branch has denied that it deleted emails to avoid providing them to the Heydon Royal Commission.

The ACTU says it is "unhelpful" when law firms provide advice to employers based more on their legal rights than the best way to resolve a dispute.

ACTU computer records suggest a single person sat the online right of entry permit tests for six HSU Victorian No 1 branch officials according to counsel assisting the Heydon Royal Commission, but the branch's secretary Diana Asmar has flatly denied she gave instructions for such a practice to occur.

Officials and organisers of the HSU's Victorian No 1 branch were issued right of entry permits after their online tests were completed by other employees of the union, the Heydon Royal Commission has been told.

TWU Vic/Tas branch secretary Wayne Mader has told the Heydon Royal Commission today that officials from his branch made donations to candidates in HSU and ETU elections out of their own re-election fund.

The Heydon Royal Commission has sprung a surprise by calling hearings that will examine activities involving Australia's biggest union, the SDA.