"I know what her explanation is," Mr Lawler said.

"And it's not a very palatable explanation."

Ms Jackson told the program she made the transactions as she was told to by her former boss Michael Williamson, who has also been convicted of misusing union funds.

In August, Ms Jackson was found by the Federal Court to have misused $1.4 million of union funds on personal dining, shopping and holidays.

Mr Lawler told the program any suggestion he benefited from this was "bullshit".

"I'll be characterised as that ah scum bag, crook, fraudster and at the very best somebody who's been bewitched by an evil harridan, mainly Kathy. That I'm c*** struck and that I have been utterly um taken in by somebody who is a serious crook."

On Monday afternoon, just hours before the program aired, Employment Minister Michaelia Cash announced Mr Lawler's conduct and sick leave would be investigated by former Federal Court judge Peter Heerey.

Mr Lawler has come under fire for taking more than nine months of sick leave while receiving his $17,000 a month tax payer funded salary while he helped Ms Jackson prepare for her court case.


"There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking leave to help your partner defend herself against unjust attacks; in fact I would have thought most Australians would regard that as an honourable and decent thing to do,"

He said he secretly recorded about 60 conversations he had with his boss, Fair Work president Iain Ross.

"I come to work with a sense of dread about the snake pit I am about to enter," he said.

In the conversation Mr Ross told Mr Lawler there was no cap on the sick leave he could take.

Mr Lawler admitted he was aware the impact of the controversy had on his reputation but what had "been done to my beloved is just evil"

"I'll be characterised as that scumbag, crook, fraudster and at the very best somebody who's been bewitched by an evil harridan, namely Kathy," he said.

"She has been totally destroyed. There is no colour in her life."

Ms Jackson said she did "not take anything like" the $1.4 million from the union "that or anything from the HSU ever".


She said for her partner to "be removed from office because he's done the right thing and supported me, then there's something wrong with this country, something seriously wrong with our political system and the judicial system".

"I just can't believe that it just ended up like this," Ms Jackson said.

"I'm not going to let these bastards take me down for their own political purposes."

Fair Work commissioners can only be removed by the agreement of both houses of Parliament, meaning the Coalition would have to vote in support of any such motion for it to pass.

