Ms MacTiernan said she gave away those shares, which she valued at $6,000, to a leprosy charity before being sworn in as a minister several months later.
The ABC is not suggesting Ms MacTiernan derived any financial benefit from the Carnegie wave project. The project was axed last month, due to Carnegie's financial difficulties, but not before the WA Government had made a $2.6 million milestone payment.
So Shorten knew all about this dirty deal.
No wonder project failed... best money laundering... and you can blame renewables... they're not developed, can't get base load power...