Union scandal: I'll come clean, says 'bagman' Ralph Blewitt


THE former union official and alleged bagman for a financial scandal linked to the then boyfriend of Julia Gillard wants to give evidence for the first time to police and prosecutors about his role and the conduct of others.

The Australian can reveal that Ralph Blewitt, a one-time branch head for the Australian Workers Union, is seeking immunity from criminal prosecution in return for breaking a 17-year silence and providing a statement to police.

In interviews with The Australian, Mr Blewitt has spoken of his past actions and those of his then best friend and AWU boss Bruce Wilson.

He has also discussed the Prime Minister's relationship with Mr Wilson and her simultaneous legal work for the union in her 1990s role as an industrial lawyer and partner at Slater & Gordon solicitors.

"I could face criminal charges," he said. "My lawyers have told me that if I seek to tell the whole story, they will seek immunity from prosecution for me.

"If I get that, I am more than prepared to tell the whole story to the best of my ability. I will make myself available (to police) on that one condition - that I have immunity from prosecution. Then the whole story can be put to bed once and for all."

Mr Blewitt is the former legal owner of a house in Melbourne's inner-city suburb of Fitzroy that was used by Mr Wilson and allegedly bought with misappropriated AWU funds in a transaction handled and part-financed by Slater & Gordon.

The terrace house in Kerr Street later became part of a major police and union investigation as Mr Blewitt and Mr Wilson were accused of illegally siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from the AWU, including funds companies such as Thiess handed over in the belief it was to pay for members' courses and training.

Most of the funds that allegedly went missing had been paid into an entity, the AWU Workplace Reform Association. Ms Gillard did legal work associated with establishment of the association as part of her role working for the union. At the time, Mr Wilson and Ms Gillard were in a close relationship. The Prime Minister has repeatedly and strenuously denied that she had any knowledge of what the association was going to be used for, and has also denied receiving any benefit.

Ms Gillard yesterday declined to respond to specific questions put to her office by The Australian and referred the newspaper to her previous strong denials of wrongdoing. Mr Wilson, who was ousted from the union, has in the past strenuously denied any wrongdoing and he was not charged after probes by the AWU and police into the matter.

Now a part-time cook at a club in NSW, he has declined to speak about his role and Ms Gillard.

more
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/investigations/union-scandal-ill-come-clean-says-bagman-ralph-blewitt/story-fn6tcs23-1226441845982

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Key-figure-in-AWU-scandal-offers-to-break-his-sile-pd20120802-WSQJE?OpenDocument&src=hp6

Next PM, Bill Shorton always there to put on the cover
http://lpickering.net/item/14369

http://pickeringpost.com/blog/larrypickering/no-win-no-fee/270

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/wilson_scandal_i_could_face_criminal_charges/

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 10:21am:

Union scandal: I'll come clean, says 'bagman' Ralph Blewitt THE former union official and alleged bagman for a financial scandal linked to the then boyfriend of Julia Gillard wants to give evidence for the first time to police and prosecutors about his role and the conduct of others. The Australian can reveal that Ralph Blewitt, a one-time branch head for the Australian Workers Union, is seeking immunity from criminal prosecution in return for breaking a 17-year silence and providing a statement to police. In interviews with The Australian, Mr Blewitt has spoken of his past actions and those of his then best friend and AWU boss Bruce Wilson. He has also discussed the Prime Minister's relationship with Mr Wilson and her simultaneous legal work for the union in her 1990s role as an industrial lawyer and partner at Slater & Gordon solicitors. "I could face criminal charges," he said. "My lawyers have told me that if I seek to tell the whole story, they will seek immunity from prosecution for me. "If I get that, I am more than prepared to tell the whole story to the best of my ability. I will make myself available (to police) on that one condition - that I have immunity from prosecution. Then the whole story can be put to bed once and for all." Mr Blewitt is the former legal owner of a house in Melbourne's inner-city suburb of Fitzroy that was used by Mr Wilson and allegedly bought with misappropriated AWU funds in a transaction handled and part-financed by Slater & Gordon. The terrace house in Kerr Street later became part of a major police and union investigation as Mr Blewitt and Mr Wilson were accused of illegally siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from the AWU, including funds companies such as Thiess handed over in the belief it was to pay for members' courses and training. Most of the funds that allegedly went missing had been paid into an entity, the AWU Workplace Reform Association. Ms Gillard did legal work associated with establishment of the association as part of her role working for the union. At the time, Mr Wilson and Ms Gillard were in a close relationship. The Prime Minister has repeatedly and strenuously denied that she had any knowledge of what the association was going to be used for, and has also denied receiving any benefit. Ms Gillard yesterday declined to respond to specific questions put to her office by The Australian and referred the newspaper to her previous strong denials of wrongdoing. Mr Wilson, who was ousted from the union, has in the past strenuously denied any wrongdoing and he was not charged after probes by the AWU and police into the matter. Now a part-time cook at a club in NSW, he has declined to speak about his role and Ms Gillard. more http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Key-figure-in-AWU-scandal-offers-to-break-his-sile-pd20120802-WSQJE?OpenDocument&src=hp6

I heard about this on ABC news this morning.  I wonder what possible charges this guy is seeking immunity on?  By the sound of it, he would be in more trouble than his Mate - and (potentially) Gillard.    Interesting

Sounds like cheque book journalism at it's worst.

If his admitting criminality(which he is by demanding immunity) then the cops should work harder to prosecute ALL those involved in wrong doing.

Then again a couple of grand, promised immunity, oh what a grand tale it would make.

I wonder if we'll get a roll over man in a few years to tell us the truth re Ashby & Brough.

How old was Gillard when she says she was young & naive? Any takers.

Dsmithy70 wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 10:29am:

Sounds like cheque book journalism at it's worst. If his admitting criminality(which he is by demanding immunity) then the cops should work harder to prosecute ALL those involved in wrong doing. Then again a couple of grand, promised immunity, oh what a grand tale it would make. I wonder if we'll get a roll over man in a few years to tell us the truth re Ashby & Brough.

Agreed, has all the tell tail signs.

How will this fellow be shut up??

Quite simple the powers to be will instruct that he gets no immunity then he doesn't give a statement and all can be kept under the carpet???


Just wait and see.

Let's see...

The so-called Thomson saga becomes Jacksonville - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign.

The so-called Slipper affair becomes Slippergate - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign.

Oh! Now we have Gillardgate? Smears against the PM which could bring down a government? I wonder... could it be?? Nah! Surely not?!?

Gist wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 11:32am:

Let's see... The so-called Thomson saga becomes Jacksonville - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. The so-called Slipper affair becomes Slippergate - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. Oh! Now we have Gillardgate? Smears against the PM which could bring down a government? I wonder... could it be?? Nah! Surely not?!?

There was money stolen and missing.
There is a person who has been sexually harassed after asking for the perp to stop.
Gillard has questions to answer. $20million stolen.

These are not fairytale situations. They are real.

BTW, maybe you know how old Gillard was when she says she was young & naive?

another day another liberal beat up ... this was investigated years and years ago ...

will this guy be like that prostitue that was going to reveal all on Thompson on channel 9's ACA? the pro that was later found to not even be in the same country at the time ?  .... the one all the libs on here were citing as proof that Thomo should hang?     keep tugging at you fools, its as close as you'll ever get to a score

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 11:37am:

Gist wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:32am: Let's see... The so-called Thomson saga becomes Jacksonville - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. The so-called Slipper affair becomes Slippergate - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. Oh! Now we have Gillardgate? Smears against the PM which could bring down a government? I wonder... could it be?? Nah! Surely not?!? There was money stolen and missing. There is a person who has been sexually harassed after asking for the perp to stop. Gillard has questions to answer. $20million stolen. These are not fairytale situations. They are real. BTW, maybe you know how old Gillard was when she says she was young & naive?

Yeah, right, as real as your daily wank fantasies. My answer is the same as for all your other dirty tricks campaigns - show us the proof, then I'll accept them as real.

John Smith wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 11:42am:

another day another liberal beat up ... this was investigated years and years ago ... will this guy be like that prostitue that was going to reveal all on Thompson on channel 9's ACA? the pro that was later found to not even be in the same country at the time ?  .... the one all the libs on here were citing as proof that Thomo should hang?     keep tugging at you fools, its as close as you'll ever get to a score

How old was Gillard when she says she was young & naive?

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 11:37am:

Gist wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:32am: Let's see... The so-called Thomson saga becomes Jacksonville - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. The so-called Slipper affair becomes Slippergate - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. Oh! Now we have Gillardgate? Smears against the PM which could bring down a government? I wonder... could it be?? Nah! Surely not?!? There was money stolen and missing. There is a person who has been sexually harassed after asking for the perp to stop. Gillard has questions to answer. $20million stolen. These are not fairytale situations. They are real. BTW, maybe you know how old Gillard was when she says she was young & naive?

Yes, I can see why some may think that the Libs have played a part in the Slipper case, but what have they had to do with the Thomson case?

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 11:44am:

John Smith wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:42am: another day another liberal beat up ... this was investigated years and years ago ... will this guy be like that prostitue that was going to reveal all on Thompson on channel 9's ACA? the pro that was later found to not even be in the same country at the time ?  .... the one all the libs on here were citing as proof that Thomo should hang?     keep tugging at you fools, its as close as you'll ever get to a score How old was Gillard when she says she was young & naive?

35.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 11:44am:

John Smith wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:42am: another day another liberal beat up ... this was investigated years and years ago ... will this guy be like that prostitue that was going to reveal all on Thompson on channel 9's ACA? the pro that was later found to not even be in the same country at the time ?  .... the one all the libs on here were citing as proof that Thomo should hang?     keep tugging at you fools, its as close as you'll ever get to a score How old was Gillard when she says she was young & naive?

I don't give a flying bugger to be honest. How old were you when your brains shriveled and died of atrophy?

john_g wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 11:47am:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:44am: John Smith wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:42am: another day another liberal beat up ... this was investigated years and years ago ... will this guy be like that prostitue that was going to reveal all on Thompson on channel 9's ACA? the pro that was later found to not even be in the same country at the time ?  .... the one all the libs on here were citing as proof that Thomo should hang?     keep tugging at you fools, its as close as you'll ever get to a score How old was Gillard when she says she was young & naive? 35.

lol 35, young and naive. Since when is 35 young and naive. Sounds very suspicious. Are you sure she was a 35 year old adult, a profession as a lawyer and she was too naive to realise that she, as a lawyer, was helping someone steal money.

If you had of said 19-27, maybe. 35, get out of here. No way.

   A long and detailed exposition and an interview but well worth listening to. You will hear more about this in the coming weeks.
http://bunyipitude.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/gillard-crooks-love-slave-and-accomplice.html


Australian Politics Forum › Political Parties › Australian Labor Party › Gillard, A Crook's Love Slave And Accomplice

Soren wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 1:39pm:

A long and detailed exposition and an interview but well worth listening to. You will hear more about this in the coming weeks. http://bunyipitude.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/gillard-crooks-love-slave-and-accomplice.html Australian Politics Forum › Political Parties › Australian Labor Party › Gillard, A Crook's Love Slave And Accomplice

Any mention of utes? Is Godwin Gretch involved in any way?

Gist wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 1:55pm:

Soren wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 1:39pm:    A long and detailed exposition and an interview but well worth listening to. You will hear more about this in the coming weeks. http://bunyipitude.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/gillard-crooks-love-slave-and-accomplice.html Australian Politics Forum › Political Parties › Australian Labor Party › Gillard, A Crook's Love Slave And Accomplice Any mention of utes? Is Godwin Gretch involved in any way?

Gillard was an Industrial Lawyer and was aware the AWU did not know the fraudulent account she set up even existed. Yet the AWU was a client of her law firm.

The account was: AWU Workplace Reform Association Inc. (whatever that means). There were a further 12 accounts that appear to have been involved in fraudulent activities.

A handwriting expert has verified it is indeed Gillard's handwriting on the above fraudulent account application.

Gillard was living with Bruce Wilson in the Kerr Street house. Union officials have confirmed that, when they visited the house on union business, even on weekends, Gillard was running around in her dressing gown. Although she owned another house in Collingwood it was known by one and all that she was living with Wilson. She was at one time pregnant to him.

http://pickeringpost.com/news/serious-questions-for-gillardbr-still-no-answers/139

Gist wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 1:55pm:

Soren wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 1:39pm:    A long and detailed exposition and an interview but well worth listening to. You will hear more about this in the coming weeks. http://bunyipitude.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/gillard-crooks-love-slave-and-accomplice.html Australian Politics Forum › Political Parties › Australian Labor Party › Gillard, A Crook's Love Slave And Accomplice Any mention of utes? Is Godwin Gretch involved in any way?

http://pickeringpost.com/mediax/resources/Affidavit2.pdf

Soren wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 2:06pm:

Gist wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 1:55pm: Soren wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 1:39pm:    A long and detailed exposition and an interview but well worth listening to. You will hear more about this in the coming weeks. http://bunyipitude.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/gillard-crooks-love-slave-and-accomplice.html Australian Politics Forum › Political Parties › Australian Labor Party › Gillard, A Crook's Love Slave And Accomplice Any mention of utes? Is Godwin Gretch involved in any way? Gillard was an Industrial Lawyer and was aware the AWU did not know the fraudulent account she set up even existed. Yet the AWU was a client of her law firm. The account was: AWU Workplace Reform Association Inc. (whatever that means). There were a further 12 accounts that appear to have been involved in fraudulent activities. A handwriting expert has verified it is indeed Gillard's handwriting on the above fraudulent account application. Gillard was living with Bruce Wilson in the Kerr Street house. Union officials have confirmed that, when they visited the house on union business, even on weekends, Gillard was running around in her dressing gown. Although she owned another house in Collingwood it was known by one and all that she was living with Wilson. She was at one time pregnant to him. http://pickeringpost.com/news/serious-questions-for-gillardbr-still-no-answers/139

Is that the same handwriting expert that verified Slipper's handwriting on taxi vouchers written in Sydney that were written when he was overseas?

The Libs never give up on their desperate much raking...and it always backfires on them  ;D

Gist wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 3:28pm:

Soren wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 2:06pm: Gist wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 1:55pm: Soren wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 1:39pm:    A long and detailed exposition and an interview but well worth listening to. You will hear more about this in the coming weeks. http://bunyipitude.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/gillard-crooks-love-slave-and-accomplice.html Australian Politics Forum › Political Parties › Australian Labor Party › Gillard, A Crook's Love Slave And Accomplice Any mention of utes? Is Godwin Gretch involved in any way? Gillard was an Industrial Lawyer and was aware the AWU did not know the fraudulent account she set up even existed. Yet the AWU was a client of her law firm. The account was: AWU Workplace Reform Association Inc. (whatever that means). There were a further 12 accounts that appear to have been involved in fraudulent activities. A handwriting expert has verified it is indeed Gillard's handwriting on the above fraudulent account application. Gillard was living with Bruce Wilson in the Kerr Street house. Union officials have confirmed that, when they visited the house on union business, even on weekends, Gillard was running around in her dressing gown. Although she owned another house in Collingwood it was known by one and all that she was living with Wilson. She was at one time pregnant to him. http://pickeringpost.com/news/serious-questions-for-gillardbr-still-no-answers/139 Is that the same handwriting expert that verified Slipper's handwriting on taxi vouchers written in Sydney that were written when he was overseas?

It will all come out in the wash, despite Finkelstein et al.

http://www.electionnow.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Young-Naive-Gillard-Short.jpg

What will the Libs call this one..Gillardgate  ;D

Shane B wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 4:30pm:

http://www.electionnow.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Young-Naive-Gillard-Short.jpg

lol.... Depicts the stupidity of the statement from Gillard perfectly.

;D ;D ;D ;D

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 5:19pm:

Shane B wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 4:30pm: http://www.electionnow.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Young-Naive-Gillard-Short.jpg lol.... Depicts the stupidity of the statement from Gillard perfectly. ;D ;D ;D ;D

Not quite. She was 35, not 32.  ;)

john_g wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 5:22pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 5:19pm: Shane B wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 4:30pm: http://www.electionnow.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Young-Naive-Gillard-Short.jpg lol.... Depicts the stupidity of the statement from Gillard perfectly. ;D ;D ;D ;D Not quite. She was 35, not 32.  ;)

To be exact, but in the scheme of it, she could be late 20's and still sound stupid saying it. She has something to avoid, young & naive lawyer 35 lol.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 5:26pm:

To be exact, but in the scheme of it, she could be late 20's and still sound stupid saying it. She has something to avoid, young & naive lawyer 35 lol.

How old was Hanson when Abbott set up his slush fund?

PM Julia Gillard's Criminal History & Her Hypocrisy with WikiLeaks & Julian Assange


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJnnsGxduNE

Tony Abbott's corrupt travel rorts


Quote:

How the taxpayer helped Tony Abbott flog Battlelines Glenn Milne Tony Abbott probably knows where his first dollar came from. His preoccupation with how much money is coming through the door is legend in Canberra amongst his colleagues. Indeed the first thing to come out of Abbott's mouth at the outset of the leaders' debate concerned his personal finances."This election is about a fair go for families struggling with the cost of living pressures," Abbott declared. "My wife Margie and I know what it's like to raise a family, to wrestle with a big mortgage, with grocery bills and school fees." Immediately after John Howard's 2007 election loss Abbott dubbed the period a "grieving" phase. But Abbott was lamenting more than just the fact that the Liberals had ceded power to Kevin Rudd. He mused publicly on the shock of losing his ministerial salary, complaining he didn't know how he was going to pay the bills. Bills of the type that might be incurred in a national book tour for example. Department of finance documents raise the serious and politically damaging possibility that Abbott used taxpayer money to promote his 2009 book, Battlelines. The revelation follows an investigation by The Drum in which the dates of Abbott's national book promotion tour have been matched to his travel expenses claims. The dates of his promotional tour were provided by his publisher, Melbourne University Press. Abbott's home base is Sydney where Sarah Murdoch launched Battlelines on Tuesday, July 28. Two days later, the then-Opposition frontbencher flew to Canberra, to quote MUP,"address the National Press Club (NPC) to discuss Battlelines". There was also a book signing coinciding with the event. According to the department of finance report detailing entitlements paid to MPs and senators from July 1 to December 31 2009 and tabled in the Parliament on the eve of the election, on July 30, the day of the NPC address, Abbott billed taxpayers $504.29 for the round trip flight back to Sydney. On August 3 Abbott was in Melbourne for a Dymocks bookstore "Dinner Event" held at George's Restaurant in Camberwell. Abbott billed the return flight to Melbourne on the same date to taxpayers. Cost: $930.95. ... Continued at http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/35544.html

...and on and on it goes. Slipper's an amateur by comparison.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 8:14pm:

PM Julia Gillard's Criminal History & Her Hypocrisy with WikiLeaks & Julian Assange http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJnnsGxduNE

Hmm just watched about ten minutes of  that.  Looks like tmanipulation of the tape - very poor sound quality almost that 'pay your bills over the phone diatribe. .  Were Hockey, Abetz and Turnbull present when this was taped?  Did they drive there in a Ute?  Was there a pieshop nearby  Was Godwin Grech the producer?  And were Slipper and Ashby cannolding in the sound room?  Do tell - fascinating thread

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 11:44am:

John Smith wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:42am: another day another liberal beat up ... this was investigated years and years ago ... will this guy be like that prostitue that was going to reveal all on Thompson on channel 9's ACA? the pro that was later found to not even be in the same country at the time ?  .... the one all the libs on here were citing as proof that Thomo should hang?     keep tugging at you fools, its as close as you'll ever get to a score How old was Gillard when she says she was young & naive?

it was investigated years ago ... what difference does it make how old she was .... it was investigated and since no charges were laid one has to assume there was no evidence to support the story ... funny how 20 yrs later, only after she becomes PM  someone suddenly developes a conscience ..... why didn't he ask for immunity 20 yrs ago? he may have actually gotten it then ....

John Smith wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 9:24pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:44am: John Smith wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:42am: another day another liberal beat up ... this was investigated years and years ago ... will this guy be like that prostitue that was going to reveal all on Thompson on channel 9's ACA? the pro that was later found to not even be in the same country at the time ?  .... the one all the libs on here were citing as proof that Thomo should hang?     keep tugging at you fools, its as close as you'll ever get to a score How old was Gillard when she says she was young & naive? it was investigated years ago ... what difference does it make how old she was .... it was investigated and since no charges were laid one has to assume there was no evidence to support the story ... funny how 20 yrs later, only after she becomes PM  someone suddenly developes a conscience ..... why didn't he ask for immunity 20 yrs ago? he may have actually gotten it then ....

There was nothing to investigate as there is no complaint from the union to get its money back or to charge the person/s involved. This has been stated many times.

Him coming out early would have been better, but he has stated he is sick of being hounded over it, so wants this out in the open once and forall.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 9:28pm:

John Smith wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 9:24pm: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:44am: John Smith wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:42am: another day another liberal beat up ... this was investigated years and years ago ... will this guy be like that prostitue that was going to reveal all on Thompson on channel 9's ACA? the pro that was later found to not even be in the same country at the time ?  .... the one all the libs on here were citing as proof that Thomo should hang?     keep tugging at you fools, its as close as you'll ever get to a score How old was Gillard when she says she was young & naive? it was investigated years ago ... what difference does it make how old she was .... it was investigated and since no charges were laid one has to assume there was no evidence to support the story ... funny how 20 yrs later, only after she becomes PM  someone suddenly developes a conscience ..... why didn't he ask for immunity 20 yrs ago? he may have actually gotten it then .... There was nothing to investigate as there is no complaint from the union to get its money back or to charge the person/s involved. This has been stated many times. Him coming out early would have been better, but he has stated he is sick of being hounded over it, so wants this out in the open once and forall.

it was investigated,  Í even had a copy of one of the signed affidavits once .. I'll have to search my old emails, I may still have it laying around somewhere although after reading it I wrote it off as rubbish so i may have discarded it. There was nothing in it to tie Gillard to anything apart from a lot of inuendo and guilt by association .... I remember at the time i discussed the same document with a friend of mine who is anti Gillard and also a lawyer, and he in the end had to agree that there was nothing in it that would stand up in any court of law ....

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 9:28pm:

John Smith wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 9:24pm: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:44am: John Smith wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:42am: another day another liberal beat up ... this was investigated years and years ago ... will this guy be like that prostitue that was going to reveal all on Thompson on channel 9's ACA? the pro that was later found to not even be in the same country at the time ?  .... the one all the libs on here were citing as proof that Thomo should hang?     keep tugging at you fools, its as close as you'll ever get to a score How old was Gillard when she says she was young & naive? it was investigated years ago ... what difference does it make how old she was .... it was investigated and since no charges were laid one has to assume there was no evidence to support the story ... funny how 20 yrs later, only after she becomes PM  someone suddenly developes a conscience ..... why didn't he ask for immunity 20 yrs ago? he may have actually gotten it then .... There was nothing to investigate as there is no complaint from the union to get its money back or to charge the person/s involved. This has been stated many times. Him coming out early would have been better, but he has stated he is sick of being hounded over it, so wants this out in the open once and forall.

I'' m sorry - how is he being hounded?  What has possessed him to come forward now?

lisa.greek wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 9:35pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 9:28pm: John Smith wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 9:24pm: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:44am: John Smith wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:42am: another day another liberal beat up ... this was investigated years and years ago ... will this guy be like that prostitue that was going to reveal all on Thompson on channel 9's ACA? the pro that was later found to not even be in the same country at the time ?  .... the one all the libs on here were citing as proof that Thomo should hang?     keep tugging at you fools, its as close as you'll ever get to a score How old was Gillard when she says she was young & naive? it was investigated years ago ... what difference does it make how old she was .... it was investigated and since no charges were laid one has to assume there was no evidence to support the story ... funny how 20 yrs later, only after she becomes PM  someone suddenly developes a conscience ..... why didn't he ask for immunity 20 yrs ago? he may have actually gotten it then .... There was nothing to investigate as there is no complaint from the union to get its money back or to charge the person/s involved. This has been stated many times. Him coming out early would have been better, but he has stated he is sick of being hounded over it, so wants this out in the open once and forall. I'' m sorry - how is he being hounded?  What has possessed him to come forward now?

Why ask me as if I am the man. Read the article or ask him directly.

gillard?

exposed?

i hope shes had a bikini wax

Coalition says police should probe union scandal, but Labor rejects claims as 'ancient stuff'


THE Coalition says police should investigate claims by Ralph Blewitt, a former AWU official and alleged bagman for a financial scandal linked to the then boyfriend of Julia Gillard, who wants to give evidence about his role in the scam and the conduct of others.

Opposition frontbencher Joe Hockey said today the matter should be left to Victorian criminal authorities.

“Look, someone has made allegations, they've been reported and they should be investigated,” Mr Hockey told 3AW's Neil Mitchell.

“I think everyone is entitled to the same level of scrutiny from the police no matter what position they hold,” he said, referring to Ms Gillard's potential knowledge of the scam when she was conducting legal work for the Australian Workers' Union.

Ms Gillard has strenuously denied any allegation of wrongdoing.

“If new evidence emerges obviously it changes the investigations,” Mr Hockey said.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott today also said the matter should be left to relevant authorities and would not weigh into the fresh revelations.

more
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/coalition-says-police-should-probe-union-scandal-but-labor-rejects-claims-as-ancient-stuff/story-fn59niix-1226442106417

One thing is for sure, there is rumbling going on in the media about this, where there has been very little in the past.

What Australia needs now is a Royal Commission into conspiracy against the constitution of Australia eh Peter Reith..,.what say you Nazi boy...what about you Bob Brown, Julia Gillard....John Howard....we are not afraid of you, we won't shut up,  we are not afraid to die...we know our Law and our rights and we stand on it..and accuse you as a foreign agent Usurper.... 8-) 8-)

Gillard is a Nazi - she said less disabled people should recieve welfare and made it harder for disabled people to receive assistance... 8-)

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 10:12pm:

One thing is for sure, there is rumbling going on in the media about this, where there has been very little in the past.

We know from experience that alone means nothing. It's a story with a Gillard link, of course there are rumblings. Makes you want to buy the paper to find out what all the rumblings are about.

Cops wanted Julia Gillard's ex, Bruce Wilson, charged


INTERNAL documents from an exhaustive police probe into a union funds scandal in the 1990s show detectives suspected former Australian Workers' Union boss Bruce Wilson and his then alleged bagman, Ralph Blewitt, were "crooks" and wanted them criminally prosecuted over a $400,000-plus alleged fraud.

The documents from the police file include letters showing leaders of the powerful AWU, which remains the most influential industrial supporter of the federal Labor government, were deeply annoyed that the two men were not charged with criminal offences.

Most of the funds that allegedly went missing had been paid into an entity, the AWU Workplace Reform Association.

Julia Gillard, as a solicitor at the time for Slater & Gordon lawyers in Melbourne, which acted for Mr Wilson, Mr Blewitt and the AWU, did legal work related to the establishment of the association in Western Australia.

At the time, Mr Wilson and the Prime Minister were in a close relationship. Ms Gillard has repeatedly and strenuously denied that she had any knowledge of what the association was going to be used for, and has also denied receiving any benefit. She has declined to provide further comment about her role at the time and referred the newspaper to her previous strong denials of wrongdoing.

In a 1997 memo, released under Freedom of Information last month, the WA police fraud squad's then Detective Sergeant David McAlpine described the alleged scam and how it involved soliciting large cheque payments from major construction companies.

Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt allegedly told the companies to make the payments to fund measures to improve safety for workers on construction sites. The police file shows that payments totalling more than $400,000 went through bank accounts tied to the AWU Workplace Reform Association.

However, police and the AWU found that the promised safety measures did not occur and the cash was siphoned off for the use of Mr Wilson, who had moved from WA to become the AWU's Victoria head, and his ally Mr Blewitt. The AWU's furious federal leadership, which did not authorise the new entity and knew nothing of its formation, made numerous formal complaints to police in Victoria and Western Australia, and launched actions in the Industrial Relations Court in a bid to recover the funds. Robert McClelland, Australia's future attorney-general, was part of the bid to recover the money.

A three-page memo from Sergeant McAlpine to the squad's legal officer, Samantha Tough, stated: "The point of this report is to obtain from you a better sense of direction in regards to charging the two crooks (Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt)."

Ms Tough's file-notes and other documents show she considered fraud, conspiracy and other criminal charges but concluded that police would need the co-operation of a key party, who declined to help. Ms Tough said search warrants should be executed in Victoria.

One of the AWU leadership's confidential letters to the fraud squad stated: "It is very difficult for people within the AWU to come to terms with these issues when they (have) seen other high-profile figures who have been taken to court recently, claiming money belonged to them."

Ms Tough was in agreement and noted: "I should add that the position we find ourselves in is extremely frustrating."
The police running-sheet states that "suspect withdrawals" were made to buy a Melbourne house at the centre of the alleged fraud, in Kerr Street, Fitzroy, in 1993. Mr Blewitt was the legal owner of the house, purchased with allegedly stolen money for the use of Mr Wilson in a transaction handled and part-financed by Slater & Gordon solicitors. The firm waived its conveyancing fees.

Mr Blewitt, 66, has now broken a 17-year silence on the matter in an interview with The Australian in which he has admitted his wrongdoing and pledged to co-operate in new investigations in Victoria and Western Australia. He said he would fully expose the alleged fraud and conduct of others to police and prosecutors in return for an assurance that he would not be prosecuted.

"I knew at the time there were sham transactions. I knew at the time it was wrong. My greatest fear is that I incriminate myself but this has to come out now," Mr Blewitt said.

The Fitzroy house became a key part of the police and union investigation involving Mr Wilson, who has previously denied wrongdoing, and Mr Blewitt, who now admits the alleged fraud.

Ian Cambridge, then national head of the AWU (and now a Fair Work commissioner), stated in an affidavit in the Industrial Relations Court in 1996 that he was "unable to understand how Slater and Gordon, who were then acting for the Victoria Branch of the Union, could have permitted the use of funds which were obviously taken from the union, in the purchase of private property of this nature, without seeking and obtaining proper authority from the union".

Asked to respond to Mr Cambridge's concern and the new revelations, Andrew Grech, managing director of the Melbourne-based firm, said: "These matters occurred some 17 years ago. Slater & Gordon is obviously a very different law firm to the small partnership that existed some 17 years ago.

"The people who were acting for the AWU at that time, have long since left the firm. No one who is at Slater and Gordon today has any personal knowledge of the circumstances surrounding this matter. And in any event, we would be restricted in what could be said because of client confidentiality. We are very proud of the firm that now employs more than 1650 staff across more than 80 locations throughout Australia and the UK."



http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/investigations/cops-wanted-julia-gillards-ex-bruce-wilson-charged/story-fn6tcs23-1226442634336

Political Commentator Glenn Milne joins Gary Hardgrave after it was revealed that ex-union official  Ralph Blewitt is willing to provide details of a financial scandal involving the actions of union members, including Julia Gillard’s ex-partner Bruce Wilson.

http://www.4bc.com.au/blogs/4bc-blog/union-scandal-to-be-revealed/20120803-23kl8.html

The scandal that now demands answers


We need specific answers, Prime Minister. And can you also explain the circumstances of your leaving Slater & Gordon. The Australian reports:

INTERNAL documents from an exhaustive police probe into a union funds scandal in the 1990s show detectives suspected former Australian Workers’ Union boss Bruce Wilson and his then alleged bagman, Ralph Blewitt, were “crooks” and wanted them criminally prosecuted over a $400,000-plus alleged fraud…

Most of the funds that allegedly went missing had been paid into an entity, the AWU Workplace Reform Association.

Julia Gillard, as a solicitor at the time for Slater & Gordon lawyers in Melbourne, which acted for Mr Wilson, Mr Blewitt and the AWU, did legal work related to the establishment of the association in Western Australia.

At the time, Mr Wilson and the Prime Minister were in a close relationship. Ms Gillard has repeatedly and strenuously denied that she had any knowledge of what the association was going to be used for, and has also denied receiving any benefit. She has declined to provide further comment about her role at the time ...

The police running-sheet states that “suspect withdrawals” were made to buy a Melbourne house at the centre of the alleged fraud, in Kerr Street, Fitzroy, in 1993. Mr Blewitt was the legal owner of the house, purchased with allegedly stolen money for the use of Mr Wilson in a transaction handled and part-financed by Slater & Gordon solicitors. The firm waived its conveyancing fees…

Ian Cambridge, then national head of the AWU (and now a Fair Work commissioner), stated in an affidavit in the Industrial Relations Court in 1996 that he was “unable to understand how Slater and Gordon, who were then acting for the Victoria Branch of the Union, could have permitted the use of funds which were obviously taken from the union, in the purchase of private property of this nature, without seeking and obtaining proper authority from the union”.

The story once so successfully suppressed is now going mainstream. The Financial Review:

The Australian Workers Union has admitted that possible corruption by some of its officials in the 1990s forced it to tighten its financial controls and try to retrieve union money.

Is Shorten normally so dismissive of scandals involving the rip-offs of union members? If so, is he fit to be Workplace Relations Minister?

Workplace Relations Minister and former AWU national secretary Bill Shorten described the case as ”ancient stuff”.

“I know at the time my predecessors certainly did take all the material to West Australian and Victorian police and what I understand is those authorities chose not to take the matter any further, not to prosecute,” Mr Shorten told 3AW.

The Australian begs to differ:


The AWU, under then president Bill Ludwig and then secretary Ian Cambridge, fought to recover the funds. Former attorney-general, Robert McClelland, who was the AWU’s lawyer at the time, recently said questions still needed answering and action had to be taken to prevent it happening again. Slater & Gordon must explain how it could allow such an entity to be established and then carry out conveyancing on a property purchased with funds from the union without authority from the union itself.

While we have an open view on this matter and accept the Prime Minister’s denial of any knowledge of, or involvement in, this scandal, questions continue to linger about Mr Wilson and Slater & Gordon. It demands a new investigation by legal authorities.

While I admire The Australian for pursuing this, I think it should be less dismissive of the blogosphere, without which this would have been yet one more story buried or ignored by the mainstream media:


THE former union official who has offered to throw new light on 17-year-old allegations of corruption in the Australian Workers Union should be given a hearing, if only to put to rest the rumours and conspiracy theories that mostly populate the internet, spread though the blogosphere and find their way into the twitterverse.

All too often these claims lack evidence, credibility and believability.

Some of those in the blogosphere who have kept asking the questions, presenting the evidence, have done so without the financial backing against legal action that mainstream journalists enjoy. They deserve a little more credit for their courage.

Labor says the scandal is old - but refuses to reveal the truth of it:


Lines from the Prime Minister’s “live issues brief” yesterday morning—a pollies’ guide to responding to hot media topics if asked by journalists:

THESE are ancient matters that have never gone anywhere, no matter how many times people have tried to reheat them. Because there’s nothing in them. It is worth remembering that the only reason they are being brought up today is because someone’s promising to reheat them in a deal to avoid criminal charges. The last time they were published the newspaper ended up apologising for making false assertions.
Ancient matters? Robert McClelland, Labor MP, former federal attorney-general and a former lawyer for the AWU quoted in The Weekend Australian, July 14:


LEGAL advice from a torrid union corruption scandal in the 1990s sheds new light on how the solicitor who would become attorney-general, Robert McClelland, and the woman who sacked him, Julia Gillard, were pitted against each other in a costly legal battle over her former boyfriend and on claims that he had misappropriated $400,000 of union money. Mr McClelland further raised the stakes in an interview when he said for the first time that a “third party” might have benefited from the alleged union wrongdoing in the 90s. “I think that any fair-minded person would have to regard the outcome from the 90s as being totally unsatisfactory because, despite protracted litigation, union funds that were misapplied were never returned to benefit members,” Mr McClelland said.

Nothing to see here; move along. Swan yesterday:


JOURNALIST: We’ve seen a former AWU member come out and say that he’s willing to make a statement about events that occurred quite some time ago. Are you concerned that such statements could be detrimental to the Labor Party?

Swan: Not at all. I don’t think there’s anything in this issue that’s been raised in the past; it’s gone nowhere. In fact, it’s been raised in some embarrassing ways by those who raised it in the past. I’m not interested in it and I don’t think it’s got any significant implications whatsoever.

If nothing improper occurred, then where’s the harm in detailing exactly what was done and why? End of story, then.

UPDATE

Reader Ian of Brisbane notes how determined The Age is to avoid smelling the stink:

Search “The Age” website for “Bruce Wilson”. The most recent reference was a 23 June column by Peter Hartcher. Nothing to see here.


http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_scandal_that_now_demands_answers/

WHAT BLEWITT HAS ON GILLARD IS BIG:

Whistleblower Ralph Blewitt is safely in the arms of “The Australian” newspaper while he awaits an assurance of indemnity from prosecution by police.

His febrile bitterness is not hidden as he explains his contempt for “that redheaded cow”, “smacking Shorten” and others.

Gillard, as Prime Minister, was hounded by Blewitt for money he is still owed, about $12,000. Gillard responded with the threat, “Disappear or I will get the AFP on to you!”

Blewitt promptly disappeared. But now he is back with hot blood and a thirst for vengeance.

One of the many questions “The Pickering Post” has broached with Gillard is: “Why does Ralph Blewitt consider it is you who should redress the claimed debt?” and, “Why did you react in such a way?”

These and many other questions are replied to in the same way each time: “Please refer to my previous responses.” We have yet to see any response other than the initial, “I was young and naive” response.

So, will Ralph Blewitt be granted the indemnity he needs? Yes, of course he will, simply because the coppers wouldn’t have charged him anyway and they can’t be seen to be protecting Gillard. A refusal to indemnify would serve only to create an insatiable media storm of protest. The time for cover-ups is passed. We will have answers now, it has gone on for far too long! There is too much prima facie evidence for even the Left wing ABC to ignore.

Apart from the vague Statute of Limitations legislation which varies between States (in this case a small matter of 17 years is involved) Blewitt denies having benefited from any alleged ill-gotten gains. So exactly what does he need indemnity from? Well, obviously from much, much more than we already know. He will not tell me.

Regardless, there will be no successful prosecutions in this little scandal. So, in effect, it’s no longer a matter of alleged criminality. It goes far beyond that. It goes to wide-spread corruption within Australian unions and their tentacles’ deep reach into the bowels of government and, most importantly, what the hell will an incoming government do about it. This Government can do nothing. It is integral to, and subservient to, union corruption.

Blewitt and his wife, Mel, arrived back here from Malaysia

terrified that, two weeks earlier, “The Pickering Post” had disclosed what was about to happen. His wife was concerned that they might be popped before Ralph could utter a word.

The Pickering Post, July 20, 2012: “Blewitt, and his wife, have been paid by a Melbourne law firm to fly back from Malaysia, where he is hiding out, to give evidence on behalf of a group of other people who also want Gillard's blood. He is in Melbourne now. Stay tuned.”

Seventeen days later The Australian, on Friday August 3, splashed with a page one lead story that Blewitt had flown into Melbourne from Malaysia and was seeking personal indemnity to spill the beans on the whole Gillard/Wilson/AWU scandal.

Blewitt immediately made contact with me and I explained to him how the information we had was obtained. He appeared relieved. But he and Mel are safe from union thugs now because “The Australian” already has his statements in hand. The police also have a fair idea of his likely disclosures.

How do I know there is much more to come? The paper I once worked for would never splash this story as a page one lead without knowing the full extent of the substance of what Blewitt has to say. The story, when it breaks, will have plenty more meat on the bone; meat we have not yet chewed on, and certainly enough to ruin Gillard’s holiday.

Gillard will not be charged but it will be claimed that she was fully aware of, and complicit in, the fraudulently-acquired funds and that she benefited from them. Her boyfriend at the time, and prime culprit, Bruce Wilson, will again attract police interest. My view is that he will not be charged either. Blewitt’s testimony will need to withstand rigorous scrutiny against a closing of the ranks in the AWU. Only a Royal Commission will prise apart that sort of solidarity.

Kim Williams, the incoming CEO of News Ltd, deserves commendation for biting the bullet and not bowing to Gillard’s threats of exposing phone hacking if the story was exposed. Maybe he had a religious epiphany or simply realised that Gillard is already spayed and far beyond the power to blackmail media.

When the dust settles on this ugly episode Julia Gillard’s reign as Prime Minister will be over, if not before.

The most important issue will be curbing unions’ continued foul influence on government and its stewardship over caches of tens of billions in superannuation... a nasty little cocktail of future unrepresentative economic influence.


http://lpickering.net/item/14705

Julia in Deeper Poo than Craig


Thomson is involved in rorting $500,000 from the HSU.

Gillard is involved in rorting $1 million from the AWU.

To date, no attempt has been made by either union to recover one cent.

As a backbencher, Thomson had no clout with media.

As Prime Minister, Gillard used her clout to kill the story... and this is how she did it:

Bruce Wilson was an AWU heavy and Gillard’s boyfriend at the time. He had been threatening developers in a thinly disguised, mob-style protection racket: Industrial peace for payment... up to $50,000 at a time.

The payments went straight to accounts Gillard had arranged while she was still working for the Left wing law firm, Slater & Gordon.

Gillard was into the scam up to her elbows and, as she was screwing Wilson at the time, pillow talk wasn’t confined to her other sexual exploits including married father, and current, Trade Minister Craig Emerson and now Gold Coast spiv Tim Mathieson who departed the Coast leaving multiple unpaid debts.

Her part in the scam was rewarded with $50,000 of renovations to her house and a $25,000 account at a top fashion house (although one could be forgiven for thinking she never used it.)

The story broke and Gillard went into frenzied damage control.

When the dust settled, Gillard was still PM but ground-breaking journalists were sacked, News Ltd CEO, John Hartigan, resigned. Both Fairfax and News Ltd immediately spiked the story and pulled broadcasts, Andrew Bolt threatened to resign, Laurie Oakes was told, “Don’t even think about it!” Blogs disappeared in a cloud of dust. Radio jocks were instructed to drop it.

ABC and ‘The Australian’ journalist, Glenn Milne, had spent months carefully documenting Gillard’s devastating involvement. His story had been legalled and it ran in ‘The Australian’ on Monday, August 1st 2011. It was immediately pulled after one phone call from Gillard.

Slavish supporter of Gillard, the ABC, promptly sacked Milne.

Gillard continued a barrage of phone calls to the then CEO of News Ltd, John Hartigan and there was a meeting arranged at the offices of News Ltd. What exactly was said at that meeting may never be known but it certainly didn’t resemble what Gillard said it was about.

The Leveson Hacking Inquiry was threatening to engulf Australia’s media and Gillard saw her opportunity. She used Bob Brown as a verbal battering ram to threaten Fairfax and Murdoch with an “inquiry”. Gillard herself publicly entered the fray with her now famous utterance: “There are questions that need to be answered.” That statement was carefully crafted to put the fear of God into the media. After much questioning she has refused to say what those questions might be.

A Leveson-style inquiry here would mutilate the very core of Australia’s media and their executives as it has, and is still doing, in the UK.

Fairfax and Murdoch executives, to put it bluntly, were shitting themselves. Their indecent grappling for a piece of an ever-decreasing circulation market-share would have opened an ugly can of worms. A can I will let sit for another time.

So, this squalid deal was done but the sordid tale still bubbles below the surface. It reaches to the very heart of the Labor movement. We are witnessing only the tip of unions’ mob-like protection rackets and their corrupt manipulation of our Parliaments.

This shameful story will eventually be told in full colour. It will be a long and agonising read.

But, in the interim, today’s fetid political power holds sway.


http://www.andysrant.com/2012/06/read-the-blog-about-gillard-that-got-larry-pickerings-facebook-page-suspended.html

Sham AWU entity incorporated - who did it?

Michael Smith explains how a sham entity was established for Bruce Wilson and his associate in Western Australia.

He compares the handwriting on the application with other documents and concludes that it was set up by Wilson's lawyer.

He explains how the entity, who's rules forbade its personal use, was actually the source of funds to purchase a house in Melbourne.

Wilson's lawyer acted on the purchase, arranged a mortgage, and accepted the balance of the purchase price paid direct from the sham entity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cs-b5rLsqM

Ruddy must have a smile from ear to ear.

aquascoot wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 10:02pm:

gillard? exposed? i hope shes had a bikini wax

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7otCZavNRAc/TsT7wVS4I0I/AAAAAAAAAMo/RQRxP_eSrvo/s640/stock-vector-man-vomiting-a-happy-rainbow-cloud-cartoon-65630185.jpg

where is this Bruce Wilson now??? we keep hearing things about this.. so it isnt going to go away especially after the THOMO/ Williamson disgrace.

If any of this crap was real there would be court cases by now. If anyone really had anything they would be using it.

SOB

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 12:29pm:

If any of this crap was real there would be court cases by now. If anyone really had anything they would be using it. SOB

They (the police) need the full support of the AWU. It has been explained plenty of times, but the numpties just dont want to hear it.

And Kevin Rudd drove around in a borrowed crappy old ute long after it was needed for campaigning.
Corruption is rife in this govt  ;D

adelcrow wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 12:47pm:

And Kevin Rudd drove around in a borrowed crappy old ute long after it was needed for campaigning. Corruption is rife in this govt  ;D

They should buy a tarago for after the next election.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 1:10pm:

adelcrow wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 12:47pm: And Kevin Rudd drove around in a borrowed crappy old ute long after it was needed for campaigning. Corruption is rife in this govt  ;D They should buy a tarago for after the next election.

And after 3 yrs of Abbott the Coalition will be able to use a rabbit scooter  :D
I hope none of the new pollies that get in are going to be making long term future plans  ;D

adelcrow wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 3:27pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 1:10pm: adelcrow wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 12:47pm: And Kevin Rudd drove around in a borrowed crappy old ute long after it was needed for campaigning. Corruption is rife in this govt  ;D They should buy a tarago for after the next election. And after 3 yrs of Abbott the Coalition will be able to use a rabbit scooter  :D I hope none of the new pollies that get in are going to be making long term future plans  ;D

You could atleast wait for them to say 'there will be no carbon tax under a government we liberals lead' as they have, and then introduce one.

But whatever floats your boat. Your prediction is as insignificant as the greens will be pretty soon. Back to the closet wif ya.

I for one welcome this little expose and look forward immensely to the day it blows up in Lieberal faces as has Utegate, Slippergate, Jacksonville, the Hanson caper... so many Lieberal lies and dirty tricks campaigns... so much poo they've had to wear as a result...  ;D ;D

Gist wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 3:49pm:

I for one welcome this little expose and look forward immensely to the day it blows up in Lieberal faces as has Utegate, Slippergate, Jacksonville, the Hanson caper... so many Lieberal lies and dirty tricks campaigns... so much poo they've had to wear as a result...  ;D ;D

You poor thing. This is not the liberals doing. The bag man has come forward. Ohhhhh.

You might have to wait for another day in the future, where your tin foil hat actually works.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 3:54pm:

Gist wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 3:49pm: I for one welcome this little expose and look forward immensely to the day it blows up in Lieberal faces as has Utegate, Slippergate, Jacksonville, the Hanson caper... so many Lieberal lies and dirty tricks campaigns... so much poo they've had to wear as a result...  ;D ;D You poor thing. This is not the liberals doing. The bag man has come forward. Ohhhhh. You might have to wait for another day in the future, where your tin foil hat actually works.

Was the bag man someone called Ashby? Did he ask senior Lieberals for advice before coming forward?

Gist wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 3:56pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 3:54pm: Gist wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 3:49pm: I for one welcome this little expose and look forward immensely to the day it blows up in Lieberal faces as has Utegate, Slippergate, Jacksonville, the Hanson caper... so many Lieberal lies and dirty tricks campaigns... so much poo they've had to wear as a result...  ;D ;D You poor thing. This is not the liberals doing. The bag man has come forward. Ohhhhh. You might have to wait for another day in the future, where your tin foil hat actually works. Was the bag man someone called Ashby? Did he ask senior Lieberals for advice before coming forward?

Typically and worryingly, you have no clue.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 3:58pm:

Gist wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 3:56pm: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 3:54pm: Gist wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 3:49pm: I for one welcome this little expose and look forward immensely to the day it blows up in Lieberal faces as has Utegate, Slippergate, Jacksonville, the Hanson caper... so many Lieberal lies and dirty tricks campaigns... so much poo they've had to wear as a result...  ;D ;D You poor thing. This is not the liberals doing. The bag man has come forward. Ohhhhh. You might have to wait for another day in the future, where your tin foil hat actually works. Was the bag man someone called Ashby? Did he ask senior Lieberals for advice before coming forward? Typically and worryingly, you have no clue.

Yes, you should be worried. Your beloved Lieberals don't have a very good history do they? They should try normal poo instead of slinging boomerang poo.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Gist wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 4:01pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 3:58pm: Gist wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 3:56pm: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 3:54pm: Gist wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 3:49pm: I for one welcome this little expose and look forward immensely to the day it blows up in Lieberal faces as has Utegate, Slippergate, Jacksonville, the Hanson caper... so many Lieberal lies and dirty tricks campaigns... so much poo they've had to wear as a result...  ;D ;D You poor thing. This is not the liberals doing. The bag man has come forward. Ohhhhh. You might have to wait for another day in the future, where your tin foil hat actually works. Was the bag man someone called Ashby? Did he ask senior Lieberals for advice before coming forward? Typically and worryingly, you have no clue. Yes, you should be worried. Your beloved Lieberals don't have a very good history do they? They should try normal poo instead of slinging boomerang poo.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

lol history.

Gillard AWU
Thomson HSU
Unions, we tell labor what to do
Now there is a history. Plenty more but couldnt be bothered going through the treasure trove

Royal Commission into the AWU allegations long overdue - Prime Minister Julia Gillard cannot continue to leave an example of 'trust me' and 'I was young and naive' while other Australians would have come before the justice system



http://indymedia.org.au/2012/08/05/royal-commission-into-the-awu-allegations-long-overdue-prime-minister-julia-gillard-canno

Young and naive...she was in her thirties and practicing in a profession that meant she was anything but.

"I am going to be representing you in this important legal action but by the way I am young and naive". Sounds like a bad porn film that no one would want to watch...or even listen to.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 4:51pm:

Royal Commission into the AWU allegations long overdue - Prime Minister Julia Gillard cannot continue to leave an example of 'trust me' and 'I was young and naive' while other Australians would have come before the justice system http://indymedia.org.au/2012/08/05/royal-commission-into-the-awu-allegations-long-overdue-prime-minister-julia-gillard-canno

I'd probably reply if I could just understand what the smack that means. "Cannot continue to leave an example"??? WTF???

Did longdope write that? He's fluent in Gibberish.

Gist wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 6:20pm:

http://indymedia.org.au/2012/08/05/royal-commission-into-the-awu-allegations-long-overdue-prime-minister-julia-gillard-canno

By "anonymous"  ;D ;D ;D ;D

OOooooohhhhh yeahhhh sooooo credible....

Is "anonymous" another name for the leader of the Nationals? He's pretty feckin' anonymous, so much so I've got no idea what his name is. So it must be him!

And you're quoting this incredibly reliable, authoritative unknown person!!!

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/rofl128420417966490000.jpg

Gold! Gold! Gold for lolly!!!

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/rofl128420417966490000.jpg

namnugenot wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 5:46pm:

Young and naive...she was in her thirties and practicing in a profession that meant she was anything but. "I am going to be representing you in this important legal action but by the way I am young and naive". Sounds like a bad porn film that no one would want to watch...or even listen to.

precisely!!!!  but dont tell the lefties that they like fairytales..and gillard is full of them

Gist wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 6:26pm:

Gist wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 6:20pm: http://indymedia.org.au/2012/08/05/royal-commission-into-the-awu-allegations-long-overdue-prime-minister-julia-gillard-canno By "anonymous"  ;D ;D ;D ;D OOooooohhhhh yeahhhh sooooo credible.... Is "anonymous" another name for the leader of the Nationals? He's pretty feckin' anonymous, so much so I've got no idea what his name is. So it must be him! And you're quoting this incredibly reliable, authoritative unknown person!!! http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/rofl128420417966490000.jpg Gold! Gold! Gold for lolly!!! http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/rofl128420417966490000.jpg

that picture is so cute thank you for that.. much better than a picture of  squinty eyesgillard nodding her head at me as if she is a school teacher..


yeah back to the topic...have you  got any idea what it is??????

cods wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 7:04pm:

yeah back to the topic...have you  got any idea what it is??????

Topic? I think it's something to do with lolly fantasising about Gillard flashing her hooters. Or maybe her bum, I don't know. I don't think he's ever properly explained what it is that she will expose imminently.

Gist wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 7:12pm:

cods wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 7:04pm: yeah back to the topic...have you  got any idea what it is?????? Topic? I think it's something to do with lolly fantasising about Gillard flashing her hooters. Or maybe her bum, I don't know. I don't think he's ever properly explained what it is that she will expose imminently.

I guess that explains the inane posts you put up..

this board is for adults.. perhaps you had better come back when your comprehension improves.

it does for some as they mature.

cods wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 7:18pm:

Gist wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 7:12pm: cods wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 7:04pm: yeah back to the topic...have you  got any idea what it is?????? Topic? I think it's something to do with lolly fantasising about Gillard flashing her hooters. Or maybe her bum, I don't know. I don't think he's ever properly explained what it is that she will expose imminently. I guess that explains the inane posts you put up.. this board is for adults.. perhaps you had better come back when your comprehension improves. it does for some as they mature.

Ah, ok, so you don't have a clue what it is she's supposed to be exposing either and so you decide to abuse me instead. Typical response from you.

Gist wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 6:20pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 4:51pm: Royal Commission into the AWU allegations long overdue - Prime Minister Julia Gillard cannot continue to leave an example of 'trust me' and 'I was young and naive' while other Australians would have come before the justice system http://indymedia.org.au/2012/08/05/royal-commission-into-the-awu-allegations-long-overdue-prime-minister-julia-gillard-canno I'd probably reply if I could just understand what the smack that means. "Cannot continue to leave an example"??? WTF??? Did longdope write that? He's fluent in Gibberish.

An example, for the dummies, goes a little like this

You tell people specifically 'there will be no drugs under a household I lead'. Then you get caught taking drugs by the people who live there. Not a good example for all the other households or the people living there.

You tell people, trust me, I had nothing to do with your mothers money that was stolen, even though I was holding her purse all this time. It was the friend of mine who I happen to ask to mind your mothers purse for me. So trust me, I was naive to think that my friend would not steal the money, even though they paid for a new house with a deposit from your mums purse. I just thought nothing of it, because your mum would not expect me to say anything.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 7:37pm:

An example, for the dummies, goes a little like this You tell people specifically 'there will be no drugs under a household I lead'. Then you get caught taking drugs by the people who live there. Not a good example for all the other households or the people living there. You tell people, trust me, I had nothing to do with your mothers money that was stolen, even though I was holding her purse all this time. It was the friend of mine who I happen to ask to mind your mothers purse for me. So trust me, I was naive to think that my friend would not steal the money, even though they paid for a new house with a deposit from your mums purse. I just thought nothing of it, because your mum would not expect me to say anything.

Was your mum Pauline Hanson? Did the money in the purse come from a slush fund set up by Tony Abbott to stitch her up?

Hey, who do you reckon this "Anne Noni-Mouse" is? Could it be Julie Bishop? She's pretty free and easy with the truth. Just ask any Indonesian ambassador!  :D

Gist wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 8:23pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 7:37pm: An example, for the dummies, goes a little like this You tell people specifically 'there will be no drugs under a household I lead'. Then you get caught taking drugs by the people who live there. Not a good example for all the other households or the people living there. You tell people, trust me, I had nothing to do with your mothers money that was stolen, even though I was holding her purse all this time. It was the friend of mine who I happen to ask to mind your mothers purse for me. So trust me, I was naive to think that my friend would not steal the money, even though they paid for a new house with a deposit from your mums purse. I just thought nothing of it, because your mum would not expect me to say anything. Was your mum Pauline Hanson? Did the money in the purse come from a slush fund set up by Tony Abbott to stitch her up? Hey, who do you reckon this "Anne Noni-Mouse" is? Could it be Julie Bishop? She's pretty free and easy with the truth. Just ask any Indonesian ambassador!  :D

It is your mum silly and she had a slush fund setup by a lawyer who is now PM.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 8:35pm:

Gist wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 8:23pm: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 7:37pm: An example, for the dummies, goes a little like this You tell people specifically 'there will be no drugs under a household I lead'. Then you get caught taking drugs by the people who live there. Not a good example for all the other households or the people living there. You tell people, trust me, I had nothing to do with your mothers money that was stolen, even though I was holding her purse all this time. It was the friend of mine who I happen to ask to mind your mothers purse for me. So trust me, I was naive to think that my friend would not steal the money, even though they paid for a new house with a deposit from your mums purse. I just thought nothing of it, because your mum would not expect me to say anything. Was your mum Pauline Hanson? Did the money in the purse come from a slush fund set up by Tony Abbott to stitch her up? Hey, who do you reckon this "Anne Noni-Mouse" is? Could it be Julie Bishop? She's pretty free and easy with the truth. Just ask any Indonesian ambassador!  :D It is your mum silly and she had a slush fund setup by a lawyer who is now PM.

ohh, so now Gillard set up a slush fund? and where did this little gem come from? or is it another of your imaginary voices again?

John Smith wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 8:46pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 8:35pm: Gist wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 8:23pm: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 7:37pm: An example, for the dummies, goes a little like this You tell people specifically 'there will be no drugs under a household I lead'. Then you get caught taking drugs by the people who live there. Not a good example for all the other households or the people living there. You tell people, trust me, I had nothing to do with your mothers money that was stolen, even though I was holding her purse all this time. It was the friend of mine who I happen to ask to mind your mothers purse for me. So trust me, I was naive to think that my friend would not steal the money, even though they paid for a new house with a deposit from your mums purse. I just thought nothing of it, because your mum would not expect me to say anything. Was your mum Pauline Hanson? Did the money in the purse come from a slush fund set up by Tony Abbott to stitch her up? Hey, who do you reckon this "Anne Noni-Mouse" is? Could it be Julie Bishop? She's pretty free and easy with the truth. Just ask any Indonesian ambassador!  :D It is your mum silly and she had a slush fund setup by a lawyer who is now PM. ohh, so now Gillard set up a slush fund? and where did this little gem come from? or is it another of your imaginary voices again?

I didn't say Gillard. I thought seeing as the imature one was talking fairy tales, then I would finish his story.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 8:35pm:

Gist wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 8:23pm: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 7:37pm: An example, for the dummies, goes a little like this You tell people specifically 'there will be no drugs under a household I lead'. Then you get caught taking drugs by the people who live there. Not a good example for all the other households or the people living there. You tell people, trust me, I had nothing to do with your mothers money that was stolen, even though I was holding her purse all this time. It was the friend of mine who I happen to ask to mind your mothers purse for me. So trust me, I was naive to think that my friend would not steal the money, even though they paid for a new house with a deposit from your mums purse. I just thought nothing of it, because your mum would not expect me to say anything. Was your mum Pauline Hanson? Did the money in the purse come from a slush fund set up by Tony Abbott to stitch her up? Hey, who do you reckon this "Anne Noni-Mouse" is? Could it be Julie Bishop? She's pretty free and easy with the truth. Just ask any Indonesian ambassador!  :D It is your mum silly and she had a slush fund setup by a lawyer who is now PM.

Ahhh... gone into the Land Of Lolly have we?? Where you can deny anything remotely uncomfortable or inconvenient, assured in the sense that nobody will challenge you there. Safe and warm. It's not happening, eh lolly?

Well, sadly for you, I can guarantee you my mum has never had anything to do with any slush fund set up by Abbott. Nor does she drive a ute. She's definitely not a gay paedophile who sets out to smear his ex-boss so as to get a bit of a promotion in the Lieberal ranks. Nor is she the partner of a senior bureaucrat who is a close mate of a senior Lieberal party member and whose administration investigates allegations she's made against an adversary.

My mum isn't any of these because she's not a Lieberal party member. That's the prerequisite for such actions you see.

Gist wrote on Aug 5^th, 2012 at 9:05pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 8:35pm: Gist wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 8:23pm: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 5th, 2012 at 7:37pm: An example, for the dummies, goes a little like this You tell people specifically 'there will be no drugs under a household I lead'. Then you get caught taking drugs by the people who live there. Not a good example for all the other households or the people living there. You tell people, trust me, I had nothing to do with your mothers money that was stolen, even though I was holding her purse all this time. It was the friend of mine who I happen to ask to mind your mothers purse for me. So trust me, I was naive to think that my friend would not steal the money, even though they paid for a new house with a deposit from your mums purse. I just thought nothing of it, because your mum would not expect me to say anything. Was your mum Pauline Hanson? Did the money in the purse come from a slush fund set up by Tony Abbott to stitch her up? Hey, who do you reckon this "Anne Noni-Mouse" is? Could it be Julie Bishop? She's pretty free and easy with the truth. Just ask any Indonesian ambassador!  :D It is your mum silly and she had a slush fund setup by a lawyer who is now PM. Ahhh... gone into the Land Of Lolly have we?? Where you can deny anything remotely uncomfortable or inconvenient, assured in the sense that nobody will challenge you there. Safe and warm. It's not happening, eh lolly? Well, sadly for you, I can guarantee you my mum has never had anything to do with any slush fund set up by Abbott. Nor does she drive a ute. She's definitely not a gay paedophile who sets out to smear his ex-boss so as to get a bit of a promotion in the Lieberal ranks. Nor is she the partner of a senior bureaucrat who is a close mate of a senior Lieberal party member and whose administration investigates allegations she's made against an adversary. My mum isn't any of these because she's not a Lieberal party member. That's the prerequisite for such actions you see.

Well good for you. Always good to here you got a good mummy. I was wondering for some time, now getting a little clearer, it must have been the horse that did it to you or the fall off the top bunk.

Looks like pickering is putting directly to the PM. Come get me if you dare.

OUR PRIME MINISTER IS A CROOK:

Julia Gillard’s latest makeover appears insufficient to cover her past.

An embattled Ralph Blewitt’s testimony will be challenged by the might of the PM’s Office but it is all too late. Basic truths are rapidly mushrooming to the surface and Pickering Post’s impeccable sources now appear to know more than even Ralph Blewitt knows.

The Pickering Post will not again ask the Prime Minister for answers. We don’t need to ask now.

We already know the answers and they are not pretty.

WA Premier, Brian Burke, Alan Bond and Laurie Connell all served time. The infamous Wilson/Gillard alliance emerged from the ashes of the WA Inc. scandal.

That Royal Commission did nothing to eradicate the next wave of corrupt union gangsters.

AWU boss, Bruce Morten Wilson was part of that new wave. Julia Eileen Gillard was later to become his pregnant girlfriend and partner in further crime.

Stories abound of a Perth-based Wilson capitalising on the growing WA boom regarding companies other than Thiess Contractors.

Pickering Post has been told, by various sources, of instances of a brash Wilson barging into developers’ boardrooms. The same old union threats to interrupt concrete pours caused ashen-faced board members to reach deep in their pockets.

It appeared extortion monies paid were going to the AWU. They weren’t. Eventually there were, in total, 12 illegal accounts. There was about to become a 13th illegal account and an extortion avalanche.

The story starts in 1992: Thiess Contractors’ WA Manager, Joe Trio was tendering for a lucrative wetlands job south of Perth. Wilson approached his friends in the then Labor Government and promised industrial peace if Thiess won the tender. Joe Trio’s Thiess Contractors won the tender.

There was no industrial unrest for the duration. Wilson now realised his immense political and fiscal power.

Ominously, Joe Trio was married to Bruce Wilson’s sister.

Later, in 1993, sums of money were appearing in a fraudulent account of Wilson’s, the account was disguised as an “AWU Workplace Reform Association” account.

We cannot confirm this, but ex-union sources are emphatic that it was Thiess Manager, Joe Trio, Wilson’s brother-in-law, who told Wilson illicit payments could not be paid directly to him. It was Trio who insisted Wilson set up accounts that would not attract attention.

Enter Julia Gillard, a young and naive, hard Left, lawyer, who naturally gravitated to the notorious Left wing law firm, Slater & Gordon. Peter Gordon of Slater & Gordon appointed Gillard as union envoy to Perth.

He instructed Gillard to hop on a plane and look after the “big boss”, Mr Bruce Wilson. Gillard certainly did that.

That night, at a dinner for union heavies at an exclusive Perth restaurant, Gillard and Wilson were finally left alone. At breakfast the next morning both were celebrating the consummation of what was to become a serious chapter in Australian political history.

Wilson accepted the position of Branch Secretary of the AWU in Melbourne. He resigned from the WA AWU but continued his remuneration from both branches.

Gillard then teamed up with Wilson and agreed to act for him, as Slater & Gordon already acted for the Vic. AWU.

THAT ACCOUNT:

Gillard, needing expert help, requested the assistance of another in-house lawyer, Bernard Murphy, to draw up the Association of Objects for the illegal account. They both worked on drafting the document. Gillard authored and signed the document.



Later, as PM, Gillard appointed Bernard Murphy as a Judge of the Federal Court.

Solicitors hold a copy of following chapters of this story:

Following instalments are ongoing and damaging. They include Shorten and Conroy’s role in the scandal. They include the immense and dastardly power of Gillard’s sacred hero, Bill Ludwig... how Gillard honoured his advice to her: “When you have the numbers, you can do what you like.” Why police investigations into Wilson were shelved. I sit at Bob Kernohan’s bedside in an unnamed Melbourne hospital. How the Left downed daggers with the Unity Right long enough to assassinate Rudd and install Gillard. How Blewitt was shafted by Gillard and Wilson. Why he never received one cent of stolen funds.

The payoffs, the bribes the sackings. Who is behind the repatriation of Blewitt and what he will say. Those in the ALP now plotting Gillard’s demise. It is a gripping saga and we have the full story... a story that will cause a Government to fall.

http://lpickering.net/item/15205

PM should answer AWU matter

Serious questions are raised by your report (and others) that, when employed at lawyers Slater& Gordon, Prime Minister Julia Gillard was closely associated with a senior Australian Workers Union official who allegedly threatened major construction companies with union disruption unless they handed over substantial funds (“AWU tells of a costly lesson”, August 4-6).

One obvious question is what stopped the AWU from seeking recovery of the misappropriated funds after it failed in actions taken in the then Industrial Relations Court based on advice by future Attorney-General Robert McClelland.
(take note the numpties who continue to say 'but there was an investigation'. The investigation could go no further because of the highlighted text. Union was uncooperative)

Another is whether Gillard’s denial of benefiting can be sustained now that an associate of the AWU official has returned from Malaysia and is prepared to provide evidence publicly, subject to receiving an indemnity.

A major concern, however, is whether the threat of detailed exposures centred around the incident might have unduly influenced decisions to give unions greatly expanded powers under the Fair Work Act, which was drafted by Gillard.

Related to this is whether they might also have unduly influenced her claim, made before the just published whitewash review, that the legislation strikes the right balance. The Australian polity is engaged in an important debate on the extent of union power, including the continued ability to disrupt. There is a clear need for the Prime Minister to make a comprehensive statement on her involvement in the AWU incident.


http://afr.com/p/opinion/pm_should_answer_awu_matter_f2plzbC4yX0IVlNz3F2QkK

Is this as believable as his cartoon of her with a strap on cock?

Gist wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 8:48am:

Is this as believable as his cartoon of her with a strap on cock?

hairdresser

He failed to read the most important part ... the story he supplied a link to is not in fact a story, but an 'OPINION"

nothing but inuendo and heresay ..with no evidence of any wrong doing apart from he says she says ...

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 8:50am:

Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 8:48am: Is this as believable as his cartoon of her with a strap on cock? hairdresser

What? Are you sure you're eating Cornflakes for breakfast this morning lolly? Seems like you might have picked up the box of Stupid by mistake.

Now try again, this time in sentences.

Gist wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 9:29am:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 8:50am: Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 8:48am: Is this as believable as his cartoon of her with a strap on cock? hairdresser What? Are you sure you're eating Cornflakes for breakfast this morning lolly? Seems like you might have picked up the box of Stupid by mistake. Now try again, this time in sentences.

Isnt the cartoon saying Gillard might just be the dominant one, not from on top, but behind or is it that Gillard screwed everyone with a big donger.

I am not sure which one is more true than the other. I only have evidence of the later.

http://www.bandtrax.com/blog/media/gillard-cd-sml.jpg

Every Australian citizen has grounds to sue Gillards freaking 'rse off... :) :)

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 9:44am:

Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 9:29am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 8:50am: Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 8:48am: Is this as believable as his cartoon of her with a strap on cock? hairdresser What? Are you sure you're eating Cornflakes for breakfast this morning lolly? Seems like you might have picked up the box of Stupid by mistake. Now try again, this time in sentences. Isnt the cartoon saying Gillard might just be the dominant one, not from on top, but behind or is it that Gillard screwed everyone with a big donger. I am not sure which one is more true than the other. I only have evidence of the later.

Well I'd hope she's dominant, although not in that way. After all, she IS the leader. Hard for some of you righties to take, I know, having a woman as boss. Tough.

Shane B wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 9:50am:

http://www.bandtrax.com/blog/media/gillard-cd-sml.jpg

Ah, here we go... the mysoginists enter on cue...

Maybe you need to go hang out in the mens toilets where you'll only have to bend over for other men?

Gist wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 10:19am:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 9:44am: Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 9:29am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 8:50am: Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 8:48am: Is this as believable as his cartoon of her with a strap on cock? hairdresser What? Are you sure you're eating Cornflakes for breakfast this morning lolly? Seems like you might have picked up the box of Stupid by mistake. Now try again, this time in sentences. Isnt the cartoon saying Gillard might just be the dominant one, not from on top, but behind or is it that Gillard screwed everyone with a big donger. I am not sure which one is more true than the other. I only have evidence of the later. Well I'd hope she's dominant, although not in that way. After all, she IS the leader. Hard for some of you righties to take, I know, having a woman as boss. Tough.

oh nose. A lefty calling sexism. What a shocker lol.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 10:23am:

Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 10:19am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 9:44am: Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 9:29am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 8:50am: Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 8:48am: Is this as believable as his cartoon of her with a strap on cock? hairdresser What? Are you sure you're eating Cornflakes for breakfast this morning lolly? Seems like you might have picked up the box of Stupid by mistake. Now try again, this time in sentences. Isnt the cartoon saying Gillard might just be the dominant one, not from on top, but behind or is it that Gillard screwed everyone with a big donger. I am not sure which one is more true than the other. I only have evidence of the later. Well I'd hope she's dominant, although not in that way. After all, she IS the leader. Hard for some of you righties to take, I know, having a woman as boss. Tough. oh nose. A lefty calling sexism. What a shocker lol.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Call us when you've got something more substantial than that then.

Gist wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 10:26am:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 10:23am: Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 10:19am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 9:44am: Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 9:29am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 8:50am: Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 8:48am: Is this as believable as his cartoon of her with a strap on cock? hairdresser What? Are you sure you're eating Cornflakes for breakfast this morning lolly? Seems like you might have picked up the box of Stupid by mistake. Now try again, this time in sentences. Isnt the cartoon saying Gillard might just be the dominant one, not from on top, but behind or is it that Gillard screwed everyone with a big donger. I am not sure which one is more true than the other. I only have evidence of the later. Well I'd hope she's dominant, although not in that way. After all, she IS the leader. Hard for some of you righties to take, I know, having a woman as boss. Tough. oh nose. A lefty calling sexism. What a shocker lol.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Call us when you've got something more substantial than that then.

What's your number then big boy (to call u/us)  ;D ;) :-*

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 11:33am:

What's your number then big boy (to call u/us)  ;D ;) :-*

(02) 6277 4022

Ask for Tony.

You may need to explain to the secretary that you're a hardened buyer of arses. That should get you through quickly.

Gist wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 12:03pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 11:33am: What's your number then big boy (to call u/us)  ;D ;) :-* (02) 6277 4022 Ask for Tony. You may need to explain to the secretary that you're a hardened buyer of arses. That should get you through quickly.

Oh sorry, you may have gotten the wrong message. I am not into what you are into. Yuk.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 12:04pm:

Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 12:03pm: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 11:33am: What's your number then big boy (to call u/us)  ;D ;) :-* (02) 6277 4022 Ask for Tony. You may need to explain to the secretary that you're a hardened buyer of arses. That should get you through quickly. Oh sorry, you may have gotten the wrong message. I am not into what you are into. Yuk.

No, it's not what I'm into either lolly. I leave that stuff to you righties!

What is it with all the Gillard threads on here?   Man she must have a lot of people frightened - they have been spruiking on for days now!

lisa.greek wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 12:12pm:

What is it with all the Gillard threads on here?   Man she must have a lot of people frightened - they have been spruiking on for days now!

You obviously didnt notice, but this is not a scared thread, this is a corrupt PM thread with obvious answers needed.

I know some around here cheer on labor corruption, but not me.

This story is will not be finished until there is a full and frank invstigation, or until the bag man spills the beans.

She'll look fetching in prison fatigues.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 12:14pm:

lisa.greek wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 12:12pm: What is it with all the Gillard threads on here?   Man she must have a lot of people frightened - they have been spruiking on for days now! You obviously didnt notice, but this is not a scared thread, this is a corrupt PM thread with obvious answers needed. I know some around here cheer on labor corruption, but not me. This story is will not be finished until there is a full and frank invstigation, or until the bag man spills the beans.

Happy with that.   Just as we needed and need  the Utegate, Slipper, Thomson, Ashby, Hockey, Brough,Abetz sagas bought to public light so this one should.   I do not cheer corruption from any source - especially pollies!

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 12:14pm:

lisa.greek wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 12:12pm: What is it with all the Gillard threads on here?   Man she must have a lot of people frightened - they have been spruiking on for days now! You obviously didnt notice, but this is not a scared thread, this is a corrupt PM thread with obvious answers needed. I know some around here cheer on labor corruption, but not me. This story is will not be finished until there is a full and frank invstigation, or until the bag man spills the beans.

Just out of interest lolly, do you think the Lieberal party will try a smear campaign on every Labor MP in turn? Or will they one day actually DO something wildly radical like... I dunno... think up a policy?

Nah! Never happen. For a start they'd need a leader with a brain larger than a grape. And where would they find one of those!??

Gist wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 12:21pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 12:14pm: lisa.greek wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 12:12pm: What is it with all the Gillard threads on here?   Man she must have a lot of people frightened - they have been spruiking on for days now! You obviously didnt notice, but this is not a scared thread, this is a corrupt PM thread with obvious answers needed. I know some around here cheer on labor corruption, but not me. This story is will not be finished until there is a full and frank invstigation, or until the bag man spills the beans. Just out of interest lolly, do you think the Lieberal party will try a smear campaign on every Labor MP in turn? Or will they one day actually DO something wildly radical like... I dunno... think up a policy? Nah! Never happen. For a start they'd need a leader with a brain larger than a grape. And where would they find one of those!??

At a big, unusually big grape vine.

BTW liberals have been doing quite well, so your opinion is noted but not taken seriously.

Shane B wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 12:18pm:

She'll look fetching in prison fatigues. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

But will her bum look big in them?

http://pickeringpost.com/mediax/resources/articles/24062012.jpg

As we can't expand images, this page is provided
http://pickeringpost.com/article/gillard-the-story-she-tried-to-kill/66

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 3:41pm:

http://pickeringpost.com/mediax/resources/articles/24062012.jpg As we can't expand images, this page is provided http://pickeringpost.com/article/gillard-the-story-she-tried-to-kill/66

I think the insert bit where the Australian Newspaper unreservedly apologise to Gillard really says it all - don't you?

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 3:41pm:

http://pickeringpost.com/article/gillard-the-story-she-tried-to-kill/66

BAH HAH!! THE PICKERING POST??!?

Does he draw it with crayons? If we're going to talk about random blogs then I really prefer this one It's a hoot!

EDIT: Fixed busted link...

Gist wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 4:00pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 3:41pm: http://pickeringpost.com/article/gillard-the-story-she-tried-to-kill/66 BAH HAH!! THE PICKERING POST??!? Does he draw it with crayons? If we're going to talk about random blogs then I really prefer this one It's a hoot!

Apparently (independent australia and all), we are.

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Regardless, with what is about to be exposed, Gillard’s tenure can now be measured in weeks.

Part III

IS OUR PRIME MINISTER A CROOK?:

It was a warm Sunday morning in Fitzroy in late 1992.

Bill Shorten and his lover Nicola Roxon had struggled out of bed late and were heading up Brunswick Street for breakfast when Bill noticed a couple they knew having coffee opposite.

They waved, crossed the road, and sat down with Julia Gillard and Bruce Wilson. The conversation concerned no more than the weather but Julia was overtly gesticulating with her left hand. It bore a sizable stone in a white gold ring. “You guys are engaged!” exclaimed Bill. Julia blushed. Nicola looked askance at Bruce.

Julia was excited, in love, and it showed. But Nicola was aware that Bruce was bedding a number of other women, and it showed too, as she lowered her head and glared at Wilson. Wilson was known in AWU circles as “Wilson the Rooter”.

To understand Julia Gillard we must first visit her history.

It was impeccably Left. During her time at the University of Melbourne from 1982 to 1991 she was an active member of, and helped incorporate, the “Socialist Forum” (later to become the Fabian Society) an unabashed Communist organisation backed by none other than the infamous Bill Hartley and well-known Communist activists, Mark and Bernie Taft.

The “Forum’s” main role was to apply pressure within the ALP to adopt radical Communist policies.

Gillard’s commitment to the cause had led her to convince her parents, who were avid Dustan supporters, to join the South Australian Communist Party.

Gillard claims she does not recall her advocacy for redistribution of income and many other Communist aims although she was Public Officer, Secretary, and legal adviser on the drafting of the “Socialist Forum’s” Constitution.

Her compatriot, Phil Hind, regularly visited the former Soviet Union and returned to zealously promote the radical “reforms” of the Kremlin.

Gillard openly experimented sexually with other women but her main calling was to men.

She left The University of Melbourne to join the Left wing Law firm Slater & Gordon. A firm she was later to be sacked from for “indiscretions”.

Bruce Wilson was a well-practised AWU thug who extorted major developers. AWU members’ dues also found their way to his own private piggy bank.

Wilson now needed Gillard. She was the perfect target and he had carefully cultivated her for reasons other than his regular hormonal flushes.

The $17,000 of union funds he had spent at Town Mode Fashions wasn’t solely for the benefit of Gillard.

Wilson needed an industrial lawyer who would turn a blind eye and feign innocence when setting up fraudulent AWU accounts.

He also needed a fall guy called Ralph Blewitt. Gillard was later to draw up a Power of Attorney so as Wilson could act for Blewitt. Blewitt trusted him. He should not have.

Ralph Blewitt sent me this only this morning:

G'day Larry.

So we must fly a rebel flag,

As others did before us,

And we must sing a rebel song

And join in rebel chorus.

We'll make the tyrants feel the sting

O' those that they would throttle;

They needn't say the fault is ours

If blood should stain the wattle!"

Henry Lawson.

Regards Ralph.



Gillard’s current claims of “young and naive” do not apply to her complicity in widespread fraud. Those claims apply solely to Wilson’s false declarations of love for her.

As partner in the law firm it would be stupid as Prime Minister to suggest she was “young and naive” when she was clearly instrumental in the blatant fraud. She has not denied her complicity but claims she didn’t know what it was for. Mmmm, ok.

But Julia should not feel lonely. Wilson defecated on everyone he met.

Slater & Gordon aided and abetted the fraud. The AWU sacked the law firm and turned to the other infamous Left wing Law firm, Maurice Blackburn, where Bill Shorten and Nicola Roxon were resident.

It is Slater & Gordon’s ex- and current employees who are now daily leaking devastating information on the activities of this listed law firm. The ASX and ASIC will no doubt be taking an interest.

In Part IV, the AWU divides into two camps: Kernohan and Cambridge want the fraud exposed. Shorten wants it covered up. Shorten wins, for now. And we find out where Paul Howes sits and if his “zero tolerance for union corruption” is mere bluster in the pursuit of self preservation. Regardless, with what is about to be exposed, Gillard’s tenure can now be measured in weeks.

http://lpickering.net/item/16108

Law firm wants permission to release its Wilson files

Slater & Gordon has suffered reputational fall-out, even though those involved in the work for Wilson left soon after the scandal was first made public, in the 1990s. Now it’s had enough:


THE most powerful union in Australia, the Australian Workers Union, is being asked by its former law firm Slater & Gordon for permission to lift a legal lid on highly sensitive files on a union funds scandal that subsequently embroiled Julia Gillard...

The Weekend Australian can reveal that Slater & Gordon is also contacting Ms Gillard’s former boyfriend and client Bruce Wilson - the allegedly corrupt leader of the scam, who was the AWU’s Victoria branch head - to ask him to waive his right to legal privilege…

In a statement last night, the managing director of Slater & Gordon, Andrew Grech, said: “..."We ... have taken these steps in the hope that we can respond to false and ill-conceived allegations that have been made against Slater & Gordon."…

The decision yesterday of Slater & Gordon has the potential to shed light on all of the evidence in a scandal that led to the the AWU’s then national head, Ian Cambridge, to urge the then federal Labor government to hold a royal commission into what he suspected was rampant union corruption.

Most of the funds that allegedly went missing had been paid into an entity, the AWU Workplace Reform Association, by large construction companies.

Ms Gillard, as a solicitor at the time for Slater & Gordon lawyers which acted for Mr Wilson, Mr Blewitt and the AWU, did legal work related to the establishment of the association in Western Australia. At the time, Mr Wilson and the Prime Minister were in a close relationship. Ms Gillard has repeatedly and strenuously denied that she had any knowledge of what the association was going to be used for, and has also denied receiving any benefit....

Mr Blewitt is the former legal owner of a house in Melbourne’s inner-city suburb of Fitzroy that was used and legally controlled by Mr Wilson, and allegedly bought with misappropriated AWU funds in a transaction handled and part-financed by Slater & Gordon..

Mr Cambridge stated in an affidavit in the Industrial Relations Court in 1996 that he was “unable to understand how Slater and Gordon, who were then acting for the Victoria Branch of the Union, could have permitted the use of funds which were obviously taken from the union, in the purchase of private property of this nature, without seeking and obtaining proper authority from the union”.

more
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/law_firm_wants_permission_to_release_its_wilson_files/


Law firm presses Australian Workers Union on privilege


THE most powerful union in Australia, the Australian Workers Union, is being asked by its former law firm Slater & Gordon for permission to lift a legal lid on highly sensitive files on a union funds scandal that subsequently embroiled Julia Gillard.

The move will put pressure on AWU boss Paul Howes, who has pledged zero tolerance for union corruption, to grant public scrutiny of confidential files tied to an allegedly criminal scam that has dogged the Prime Minister throughout her political career.

***Lets see Howes squirm out of this one.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/law-firm-presses-australian-workers-union-on-privilege/story-fn59niix-1226447902130

What should the new Underbelly series be called?

Part IV

IS OUR PRIME MINISTER A CROOK?:


Julia Gillard was in tears when she called Bruce Wilson to tell him she had been sacked from Slater & Gordon.

The $17,000.00 spent at Town Mode Fashions had nothing to do with fashion. Town Mode Fashions was owned by a Greek builder. The very same builder who was performing the renovations! Yet another amateurish attempt by Bonny and Clyde to hide the source and terminus of the stolen funds.

When the Town Mode Fashions money ran out the Greek renovator innocently sent the invoices to the AWU head office. Union bosses demanded to know what the hell was going on. It didn’t take them long to link Slater & Gordon to the scam.

One phone call and the game was up for Gillard and Wilson.

Slater & Gordon’s Peter Gordon suggested Gillard resign but made it very clear she was going, one way or the other. He was not so concerned at what she had done but he needed to immediately distance the already tainted Slater & Gordon from yet another looming scandal.

The AWU was a major client of Slater & Gordon and it was clear that Gillard and another in-house lawyer and Partner, Bernard Murphy, had facilitated the theft of AWU funds. Murphy soon thereafter relocated to work for the other Left wing law firm, Maurice Blackburn.

Gillard later, as Prime Minister, was to reward Murphy’s assistance in the fraud with an appointment to Judge of the Federal Court. He remains there.

Wilson was worried. He suggested to Julia they get away for a while to regroup at their regular haunt, The Grand Hotel in Healesville. They spent a week there hatching a plan to credibly deny the fraud. But those denials were to become anything but credible.

Wilson used either the Healesville Hotel or the Grand Promenade at Lorne for his regular dirty weekends. Unknown to Julia the weekends often excluded her.

Ex-friends describe Wilson’s regular weekend rant that AWU Supremo, “Big Bill” Ludwig was grooming him for ALP leadership.

After they returned from Healesville, Gillard remained unemployed for six months. She never again worked in law. Wilson scarpered back to Perth to his waiting wife and two boys.



“Big Bill” Ludwig ruled Canberra with an iron fist from Queensland and no-one, including ALP Prime Ministers, dared fart without his permission. Except Kevin Rudd.

His initial disdain for Gillard waned in the wake of his hatred for the factionless Rudd and he later endorsed her Prime Ministership.

It was now clear that possibly millions in union funds had been stolen. Ludwig flew into a blind rage. He and AWU boss Ian Cambridge immediately called in the cops, sacked Slater & Gordon and called for a Royal Commission.

Police investigations were proceeding well until they unexpectedly requested AWU files.

Kernohan’s protégé Bill Shorten insisted the investigation be closed down. “Public exposure to AWU files will mean we are all stuffed”, he declared. “Bill Ludwig will be finished!” Shorten and others knew that Ludwig himself had had his fingers in the till for years.

Union corruption was rife. The millions rorted from HSU (East) and AWU members were just the tip of the iceberg.

Discovery was only ever accidental.

Shorten was later to become National Secretary of the AWU and an expert in closing down police enquiries into unions. The police in this case were unable to continue without further information and they weren’t getting it from union bosses.

Enter Paul (Piggy) Howes, current AWU National Secretary. “This is an isolated case”, he says. “We have zero tolerance for union corruption.” Ok Piggy, you have blatantly lied before. Let’s see if you are lying again now.

Hand over the files. Your “zero tolerance” will assist in recovering your members’ stolen funds... but it will destroy your friends and devastate your union. Your call, Piggy.

What’s it to be? Show us who you really act for, you bloated bastard?

Part V discloses Slater & Gordon’s conflict of interest and the report being prepared for the Law Institute. How the AWU is still refusing to make any attempt to chase their members’ stolen funds despite a Court Order that monies be returned.

The young and naive Julia knew of Wilson’s marriage to a Swiss Italian girl in Perth and his two boys. Had Wilson promised to divorce his wife for Julia? Why Wilson finishes up broke and friendless.


http://lpickering.net/item/16312

If Jules survives, next election, this will be 'The Real Real Real(what are we up to) Juliar'

Apparently 4 Corners is chasing this story.

Gillard was asked a question about the Slater & Gordon files at the press conference today.

Shane B wrote on Aug 13^th, 2012 at 11:07pm:

Apparently 4 Corners is chasing this story. Gillard was asked a question about the Slater & Gordon files at the press conference today.

I was just going to put up what Bolt had on that. Good to see it stepping out of the shadows and into the main.


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Ominous for Gillard. In discussing the boat people report, Julia Gillard is asked for the first question I can recall at a Canberra press conference about the AWU scandal of the 1990s, when her then boyfriend and client Bruce Wilson misappropriated $400,000, using the dodgy “AWU Workers Reform Association” Gillard helped set up as a partner of Slater & Gordon. Asked a reporter I couldn’t identify: would Gillard back Slater & Gordon’s request to the AWU to release it from the obligations of client confidentiality so it could defend its actions. Gillard’s reply: that is a matter for Slater & Gordon. Last year two journalists lost their jobs trying to cover this issue. It’s now going mainstream.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_six_months_that_gillards_bio_left_out/


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This would be what I would have said, because I have nothing to hide "I would expect they should, but that is a matter for Slater & Gordon. I would hope AWU support their actions as best they can"

Seems the greens are complicit with labor in shutting the media down, when they called for a media investigation.

So much for the greens being there to keep the others honest. More like to keep them from being exposed.

listen
http://www.4bc.com.au/blogs/4bc-blog/union-scandal-to-be-revealed/20120803-23kl8.html

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L. Pickering

Pickering interview on 3AW - listen
Gillard and the AWU scandal: Larry Pickering forecasts the PM's demise

Political cartoonist Larry Pickering has caused a stir with his soap opera-type stories which Derryn Hinch has described as akin to ‘Days of Our Lives’.

The explosive part about these stories, however, is that Pickering is adamant these stories – which he has admitted are written with ‘a bit of licence’ – will see the end of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Speaking with Derryn Hinch, Larry Pickering, who has published the stories pertaining to Ms Gillard’s involvement in her former boyfriend’s alleged embezzlement of Australian Workers Union funds, at his website ‘Pickering Post’, said he was not afraid of any repercussions.

”I'm that sure of the facts, I'm standing on my front door waiting for someone to come with a writ. I wish they would, because I've got stuff that would break this wide apart,” he said.

Last year, The Australian was allegedly forced to retract a column written by journalist Glenn Milne pertaining to the affair, resulting in Milne losing his column and place on the panel of ABC’s Insiders.

Larry Pickering told Derryn Hinch his sources which included current and former employees of law firm Slater & Gordon, a former employer of Ms Gillard, and members of the ALP.

Mr Pickering forecast Ms Gillard’s departure from the Prime Ministership within a matter of weeks, saying he was waiting on some ‘explosive’ material from the police which he would obtain under Freedom of Information laws.

”She's going to be out of there, I reckon she's got about maybe two or three weeks left, but we're waiting on FOI stuff from the coppers,” he said.


listen
http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/blog-with-derryn-hinch/gillard-and-the-awu-scandal-larry-pickering-forecasts-the-pms-demise/20120814-246gn.html

How does an idiot with no understanding of the Australian constitution and the Law wrangle her way into the Parliament and bullsh!t her morally challenged useless carcass into the highest office in the land...who is responsible for this deplorable situation? :) :)

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Pickering is adamant these stories – which he has admitted are written with ‘a bit of licence’ – will see the end of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

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That's funnier than any cartoon he's ever published!! What a princess!


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Gist wrote on Aug 14^th, 2012 at 7:20pm:

Quote: Pickering is adamant these stories – which he has admitted are written with ‘a bit of licence’ – will see the end of Prime Minister Julia Gillard. http://gifs.gifbin.com/012010/1264091579_kirk_rofl.gif http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2754/4400042372_6cd2c02b19_o.gif http://separi.wippiespace.com/img/conan-rofl.gif That's funnier than any cartoon he's ever published!! What a princess! http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm0h4xOHGe1qdlkgg.gif

What is even funnier is, if there is no writ against him. Someone is too scared to stop him and this AWU bolder coming to crush Juliar Gillard.

BTW the license is in the story telling. Making a boring moment between gillard and lover, sound a little less boring. As for the guts of the story, I bet you are laughing as you lot love labor corruption and stealing of the little peoples money.

Bring on the writ.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 14^th, 2012 at 7:22pm:

What is even funnier is, if there is no writ against him. Someone is too scared to stop him and this AWU bolder coming to crush Juliar Gillard.

OOOhhh yeah, they're running scared.

OR!

It could just be that Pickering and the three people who read his blog are considered completely irrelevant.

do you think this could be one of the reasons she wants to shut down the media???

she seems to be the one with the most to lose in this ALP scandal.hohum

Gist wrote on Aug 14^th, 2012 at 7:27pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:22pm: What is even funnier is, if there is no writ against him. Someone is too scared to stop him and this AWU bolder coming to crush Juliar Gillard. OOOhhh yeah, they're running scared. OR! It could just be that Pickering and the three people who read his blog are considered completely irrelevant.

so why are you reading this thread???/yawnnnnnnnnn

cods wrote on Aug 14^th, 2012 at 7:37pm:

do you think this could be one of the reasons she wants to shut down the media??? she seems to be the one with the most to lose in this ALP scandal.hohum

And the complicate greens, except the ends justifies the means to their little dictatorialship.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 14^th, 2012 at 8:04pm:

cods wrote on Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:37pm: do you think this could be one of the reasons she wants to shut down the media??? she seems to be the one with the most to lose in this ALP scandal.hohum And the complicate greens, except the ends justifies the means to their little dictatorialship.

well from what I read the only reason anyone has for shutting something up or closing something down is because they have something to hide..

I mean there is no proof whatsoever of corruption in our media...so why bring in the watchdogs..


yet there is vast corruption in our unions... yet no mention of watchdogs..


but it is the left that are after this happening... and by the look of things they are the ones with the most to hide.

cods wrote on Aug 14^th, 2012 at 7:38pm:

Gist wrote on Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:27pm: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:22pm: What is even funnier is, if there is no writ against him. Someone is too scared to stop him and this AWU bolder coming to crush Juliar Gillard. OOOhhh yeah, they're running scared. OR! It could just be that Pickering and the three people who read his blog are considered completely irrelevant. so why are you reading this thread???/yawnnnnnnnnn

In the faint hope that it might contain something ever so slightly worthwhile. I was dead wrong.  ::)

ps bring on a royal commission into Australian unions..

everyone is tainted doesnt matter which way you look.

cods wrote on Aug 14^th, 2012 at 8:31pm:

ps bring on a royal commission into Australian unions.. everyone is tainted doesnt matter which way you look.

Agreed. Unions must also be subject to the same degree of financial accountability as publicly-listed corporations.

What Pickering is writing could not be written in our litigatious society, if it were not true he would be up infront of the judge, but he's not, Now why??? because it is all true and Gillard knows that its best to keep it quiet than fight a fight that will expose her past.

Pickering says 2-3 weeks, good the clock is ticking.

bugger there are some real morons on this forum ....

John Smith wrote on Aug 14^th, 2012 at 9:14pm:

bugger there are some real morons on this forum ....

Funny thing is a lot of them are the same person. the fool behind the woof woof ID runs at least three others.

so are you saying that what Pickering is writing is a lie??

John Smith wrote on Aug 14^th, 2012 at 9:14pm:

bugger there are some real morons on this forum ....

we righties  know, and they are all lefties.. we just dont express it so quaintly thats all. :D :D

cods wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 4:35am:

John Smith wrote on Aug 14th, 2012 at 9:14pm: bugger there are some real morons on this forum .... we righties  know, and they are all lefties.. we just dont express it so quaintly thats all. :D :D

Unbelievable. Pickering is obviously sticking his neck out on this, leaving himself exposed to all sorts of libel. Even suggesting he looks forward to it and all the lefty idiots can say is we are morons.

No wonder they were all telling us to keep quiet about thomson. They love their corrupt leaders, they hate the little guy.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 6:56am:

cods wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 4:35am: John Smith wrote on Aug 14th, 2012 at 9:14pm: bugger there are some real morons on this forum .... we righties  know, and they are all lefties.. we just dont express it so quaintly thats all. :D :D Unbelievable. Pickering is obviously sticking his neck out on this, leaving himself exposed to all sorts of libel. Even suggesting he looks forward to it and all the lefty idiots can say is we are morons. No wonder they were all telling us to keep quiet about thomson. They love their corrupt leaders, they hate the little guy.

if pickering is only half right... when the sheet hits the fan half the labor party will go..

not surprising they try to belittle this and make it a non event.


I cant think of one union guy I would trust with my piggybank to be honest..I am sure not one of them got where they are without some corruption taking place..we are now being told

as much as $20 million has been stolen from the AWU members..

$20 milion for gods sakes.. who what and where.????????????.. its unreal.

and the investigation into the HSU hasnt been finalised as yet..

cods wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 7:26am:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 6:56am: cods wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 4:35am: John Smith wrote on Aug 14th, 2012 at 9:14pm: bugger there are some real morons on this forum .... we righties  know, and they are all lefties.. we just dont express it so quaintly thats all. :D :D Unbelievable. Pickering is obviously sticking his neck out on this, leaving himself exposed to all sorts of libel. Even suggesting he looks forward to it and all the lefty idiots can say is we are morons. No wonder they were all telling us to keep quiet about thomson. They love their corrupt leaders, they hate the little guy. if pickering is only half right... when the sheet hits the fan half the labor party will go.. not surprising they try to belittle this and make it a non event. I cant think of one union guy I would trust with my piggybank to be honest..I am sure not one of them got where they are without some corruption taking place..we are now being told as much as $20 million has been stolen from the AWU members.. $20 milion for gods sakes.. who what and where.????????????.. its unreal. and the investigation into the HSU hasnt been finalised as yet..

And Paul Howes supports this PM. Unbelievable. Talk about a double kick in the guts for AWU members. Get their money robbed, then their highest ranking official supports the person who helped it all happen(knowingly or not).

Union taunts AWU over Wilson scandal

I missed this in the Financial Review yesterday - more evidence that the scandal involving a former client and boyfriend of Julia Gillard is now becoming common knowledge, despite the refusal of the Canberra press gallery icons to cover it:

A rival union leader has criticised the Australian Workers’ Union response to allegations of financial misappropriation in the mid-1990s.

The comment, made on Twitter by the national secretary of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers’ Association Steve Purvinas, has increased tensions with his AWU counterpart Paul Howes.

Mr Purvinas yesterday tweeted: ”Why aren’t the AWU trying to recover this allegedly stolen members’ money?” and then tweeted a link advertising an interview by Sydney radio host Alan Jones discussing the allegations…

Mr Howes yesterday refused to comment directly on the tweets by Mr Purvinas, referring to comments made last week


http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/union_taunts_awu_over_wilson_scandal/

The only allegation I have seen against Julia Gillard is that she went out with some bloke that is accused of being a crook.....I am not at all surprised the Murdoch press are pushing this for all it is worth.....Just another reflection on the Australian media and its ability to muck rake where there is no evidence to support any charges against the PM!!!

::) ::) ::)

philperth2010 wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 7:51am:

The only allegation I have seen against Julia Gillard is that she went out with some bloke that is accused of being a crook.....I am not at all surprised the Murdoch press are pushing this for all it is worth.....Just another reflection on the Australian media and its ability to muck rake where there is no evidence to support any charges against the PM!!! ::) ::) ::)

You dont read so well then do you.

I see the usual idiots are delusional as ever, I cant wait until the Abbott rape case breaks. :-?f

skippy. wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 8:07am:

I see the usual idiots are delusional as ever, I cant wait until the Abbott rape case breaks. :-?f

Same here. How about you break it. Good to see you (the usual idiots) delusional as ever.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 8:09am:

skippy. wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 8:07am: I see the usual idiots are delusional as ever, I cant wait until the Abbott rape case breaks. :-?f Same here. How about you break it. Good to see you (the usual idiots) delusional as ever.

The police are still interviewing the dog. :-X

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 6:56am:

cods wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 4:35am: John Smith wrote on Aug 14th, 2012 at 9:14pm: bugger there are some real morons on this forum .... we righties  know, and they are all lefties.. we just dont express it so quaintly thats all. :D :D Unbelievable. Pickering is obviously sticking his neck out on this, leaving himself exposed to all sorts of libel. Even suggesting he looks forward to it and all the lefty idiots can say is we are morons. No wonder they were all telling us to keep quiet about thomson. They love their corrupt leaders, they hate the little guy.

you mean like  Ashby  did with Slipper?

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 7:33am:

cods wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 7:26am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 6:56am: cods wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 4:35am: John Smith wrote on Aug 14th, 2012 at 9:14pm: bugger there are some real morons on this forum .... we righties  know, and they are all lefties.. we just dont express it so quaintly thats all. :D :D Unbelievable. Pickering is obviously sticking his neck out on this, leaving himself exposed to all sorts of libel. Even suggesting he looks forward to it and all the lefty idiots can say is we are morons. No wonder they were all telling us to keep quiet about thomson. They love their corrupt leaders, they hate the little guy. if pickering is only half right... when the sheet hits the fan half the labor party will go.. not surprising they try to belittle this and make it a non event. I cant think of one union guy I would trust with my piggybank to be honest..I am sure not one of them got where they are without some corruption taking place..we are now being told as much as $20 million has been stolen from the AWU members.. $20 milion for gods sakes.. who what and where.????????????.. its unreal. and the investigation into the HSU hasnt been finalised as yet.. And Paul Howes supports this PM. Unbelievable. Talk about a double kick in the guts for AWU members. Get their money robbed, then their highest ranking official supports the person who helped it all happen(knowingly or not).

I think he must have been told to pull his head in if he wants to be on the benches.. a few weeks ago after the gillard govt gave Reinheart to go ahead to bring in 1500 overseas workers he was screaming mad... I said he couldnt believe any govt would do this.. this was just as the news from Ford and Caltex came out.. he was livid. so now its all patting on the back hurray stuff..

philperth2010 wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 7:51am:

The only allegation I have seen against Julia Gillard is that she went out with some bloke that is accused of being a crook.....I am not at all surprised the Murdoch press are pushing this for all it is worth.....Just another reflection on the Australian media and its ability to muck rake where there is no evidence to support any charges against the PM!!! ::) ::) ::)

hey phil better go back and have another read its common knowledge she as an employee of the legal firm helped him set up bank accounts in the name of so called union business.. where money from BIG business was shifted...in... then shifted out..

she admits doing it but claims she was innocent as a lark and had no idea what she was doing it for..the boy friend Wilson by all accounts was and out and out thug..he also deserted his wife and two children.. and had numerous women on the side..the fact that money was being paid to him via a shop in Melb owned by a greek??????.
stand over money who knows.. it only came to light after through some bungling the shop owner sent the money to the AWU.. thinking they were getting it anyway... and they knew nothing about it..


someone has already said from behind closed doors this is just the tip of the iceberg...

we understand your desire to support this women.. but for the name of god... dont you care about all this???????????????

its been going on for years and will go on for more if its shut down now..

cods wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 8:24am:

philperth2010 wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 7:51am: The only allegation I have seen against Julia Gillard is that she went out with some bloke that is accused of being a crook.....I am not at all surprised the Murdoch press are pushing this for all it is worth.....Just another reflection on the Australian media and its ability to muck rake where there is no evidence to support any charges against the PM!!! ::) ::) ::) hey phil better go back and have another read its common knowledge she as an employee of the legal firm helped him set up bank accounts in the name of so called union business.. where money from BIG business was shifted...in... then shifted out.. she admits doing it but claims she was innocent as a lark and had no idea what she was doing it for..the boy friend Wilson by all accounts was and out and out thug..he also deserted his wife and two children.. and had numerous women on the side..the fact that money was being paid to him via a shop in Melb owned by a greek??????. stand over money who knows.. it only came to light after through some bungling the shop owner sent the money to the AWU.. thinking they were getting it anyway... and they knew nothing about it.. someone has already said from behind closed doors this is just the tip of the iceberg... we understand your desire to support this women.. but for the name of god... dont you care about all this??????????????? its been going on for years and will go on for more if its shut down now..

words words words ...you've got nothing ....

The way people on here are accusing Gillard without any evidence this must be true then

How the Right wins by cheating

liberals supporters on here are only following what Liberal politicians have done over the years.

John S wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 9:19am:

The way people on here are accusing Gillard without any evidence this must be true then How the Right wins by cheating liberals supporters on here are only following what Liberal politicians have done over the years.

whatchewsaying willis???

she admits it.............she said she done it..... she just didnt know what she was doing though...................................everybody.........aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


she was a lawyer  but a naive one!!!!!



so WHO was the last Lib Leader caught with his hands in a UNION TILL????????????

Part V

IS OUR PRIME MINISTER A CROOK?:



Julia wandered aimlessly around her Abbottsford home. She had been unemployed for almost six months since she was sacked from Slater & Gordon. Her money had run out and her boyfriend, Bruce Wilson, had run off. Those lost six months were to mysteriously disappear from her CV.

If only things could have been different. She now knew she could never practise law again and anyway her Practising Certificate was soon to expire.

Julia had put her neck on the line for that bastard Wilson. He had promised her the world and she got peanuts from their clever scam. He was safe back in Perth with his wife, Francine, and the boys. She was left alone and with nothing.

The truth was Julia had knowingly help set up the infrastructure for Wilson’s money laundering. With the help of another Slater & Gordon Partner, Bernard Murphy, she had drawn up the documents that allowed Wilson to open a fraudulent account through which the extorted funds were to be laundered.

She had set up a Power of Attorney for Wilson to act on behalf of his friend Ralph Blewitt in laundering the funds. Wilson and she were living in the Kerr Street home bought with the stolen funds including a mortgage arranged in the name of Slater & Gordon’s Senior Partner, Jonathon Rothfield.

“Fall guy” Blewitt was blissfully unaware of the mortgage.

When the Kerr Street home was sold the money vanished. Blewitt, the oblivious owner, did not see a cent.

Meanwhile, back in Perth, Wilson was living the life of Riley. He had bought a restaurant called “Rumbrellas” and had spent $330,000 on renovations. Unfortunately, although Wilson was a dab hand at stealing, his business acumen was appalling. “Rumbrellas” was soon in liquidation. Wilson was broke.

He asked his offsider Ralph Blewitt for a $20,000 loan. Blewitt refused. Wilson suggested to Blewitt that one phone call to Big Bill Ludwig and Blewitt would never work again. That wasn’t true of course but Blewitt loaned him the money anyway. The loan was never repaid.

Back at Abbottsford, Julia called a friend, Carol Pyke, who had ALP connections in Victoria and asked her if she would move in to help defray the costs. She did and Julia eventually sold her half of the Abbottsford property.

Despite her known involvement in the extortion/money laundering affair, Julia was still determined to enter Parliament. But each time she sought pre-selection she was thwarted by her own Party. Centre Unity faction members of the ALP insisted Julia Gillard, of the Socialist Left faction, was an unsuitable candidate because of the known scandal.

[Many years later, power broker, Mark Abib, was to negotiate Gillard swapping factions to allow her to become Prime Minister... and without reference to Caucus.]

The focus is now back on Slater & Gordon. Although a listed company they still refuse to come clean on what went on. Why was their client, the AWU, not alerted to the false accounts? Why was the AWU not told of the funds, the laundering, the house, the conveyancing, the mortgage, the profit from the sale of the house?

They refuse to release the conveyancing details of the Kerr Street property claiming privilege. Yet there is no privilege associated with conveyancing.

It was rightfully AWU members’ money. It was Slater & Gordon’s Partners Gillard and Murphy and senior Partner Rothfield who set the whole thing up!

Convicted Partners of Keddies Law firm, owned by Slater & Gordon, have outwitted creditors of millions, according to a report in tomorrow’s Sydney Morning Herald.

Disclosure of Freedom of Information documents is being thwarted by the Victorian Police. “Too busy”, they say.

They have sat on the application for two months and say it may be another two months. Regulations demand a period of no longer than 30 days.

In the meantime “Pickering Post” is being constantly attacked by hackers using DDoS.

They may silence us for a while but the truth will out.

Much more to come.

http://lpickering.net/item/17113

cods wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 7:26am:

if pickering is only half right... when the sheet hits the fan half the labor party will go..

Yeah, right. If Pickering were half right then the Lieberal leadership would be all over it like slavering dogs. There'd be no end to the hounding in question time.

Instead it's left to some washed up tomato grower who made a name for himself by drawing cartoons of people's dicks to write fevered imaginings on an internet blog nobody reads.

And the delusional fanbois of course would believe any tripe. And you lot want to be taken seriously..???  :o :o :o

Gist wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 9:08am:

cods wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 7:26am: if pickering is only half right... when the sheet hits the fan half the labor party will go.. Yeah, right. If Pickering were half right then the Lieberal leadership would be all over it like slavering dogs. There'd be no end to the hounding in question time. Instead it's left to some washed up tomato grower who made a name for himself by drawing cartoons of people's dicks to write fevered imaginings on an internet blog nobody reads. And the delusional fanbois of course would believe any tripe. And you lot want to be taken seriously..???  :o :o :o

You obviously have not noticed. Liberals are on track for the next election without the notion that they are or have been harassing a member like thomo, slipper ect (hey will get their day in gaol umm court)

This is going to have to come from someone else, pickering even. Thomo and others use parliament privilidge for a reason. Pickering is in public and has put himself in direct line of a defimation suit.

Pickering still being able to write this stuff, is enough anyone needs to know about the guilt of said subject. Gillard/labor are too scared to make waves on this in fear the story will break loose(no more scared media) and all hell breaking loose.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 9:22am:

You obviously have not noticed. Liberals are on track for the next election without the notion that they are or have been harassing a member like thomo, slipper ect (hey will get their day in gaol umm court) This is going to have to come from someone else, pickering even. Thomo and others use parliament privilidge for a reason. Pickering is in public and has put himself in direct line of a defimation suit. Pickering still being able to write this stuff, is enough anyone needs to know about the guilt of said subject. Gillard/labor are too scared to make waves on this in fear the story will break loose(no more scared media) and all hell breaking loose.

Soooo.... what part of delusional fanboi did you not get?

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 9:22am:

Gist wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:08am: cods wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 7:26am: if pickering is only half right... when the sheet hits the fan half the labor party will go.. Yeah, right. If Pickering were half right then the Lieberal leadership would be all over it like slavering dogs. There'd be no end to the hounding in question time. Instead it's left to some washed up tomato grower who made a name for himself by drawing cartoons of people's dicks to write fevered imaginings on an internet blog nobody reads. And the delusional fanbois of course would believe any tripe. And you lot want to be taken seriously..???  :o :o :o You obviously have not noticed. Liberals are on track for the next election without the notion that they are or have been harassing a member like thomo, slipper ect (hey will get their day in gaol umm court) This is going to have to come from someone else, pickering even. Thomo and others use parliament privilidge for a reason. Pickering is in public and has put himself in direct line of a defimation suit. Pickering still being able to write this stuff, is enough anyone needs to know about the guilt of said subject. Gillard/labor are too scared to make waves on this in fear the story will break loose(no more scared media) and all hell breaking loose.

I still don't quite understand why this is not in Question Time.  Surely Joe Hockey or Pyne or a similar high profile Lib could work out a way of introducing it?     We had the Utegate saga very quickly bought in - why not this one?    Are the Libs a bit scared of another Godwin Grech incident?

Gist wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 9:26am:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:22am: You obviously have not noticed. Liberals are on track for the next election without the notion that they are or have been harassing a member like thomo, slipper ect (hey will get their day in gaol umm court) This is going to have to come from someone else, pickering even. Thomo and others use parliament privilidge for a reason. Pickering is in public and has put himself in direct line of a defimation suit. Pickering still being able to write this stuff, is enough anyone needs to know about the guilt of said subject. Gillard/labor are too scared to make waves on this in fear the story will break loose(no more scared media) and all hell breaking loose. Soooo.... what part of delusional fanboi did you not get?

I am sure if this were tales about the Libs and on GETUP you wouldnt have a problem with it gist.........hilarious... you are so obvious..

never mind some where some time the left will do something right ..


mmmmmmmmmmm call an election might be it..

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

we righties know you guys dread an election and after the slap in tha face from the HOuston report I bet she does as well..

I wonder how much screaming went on in the bunker..lol...

as it is this bad smell wont go away it doesnt matter who or what prints it up..

no one is calling pickering out are they?????????.

I would be worried about that if I were you... as gillard has done well to shut down the THOMO investigation.[close to 5 years now isnt it?].. and now slipper is retracting one if his claims against ashby...all slows the law  doesnt it.. and what about the gags on the media.??..

all very suss in my book..


this is supposed to be a transparent govt... hahahahahahahaha

Gist wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 9:26am:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:22am: You obviously have not noticed. Liberals are on track for the next election without the notion that they are or have been harassing a member like thomo, slipper ect (hey will get their day in gaol umm court) This is going to have to come from someone else, pickering even. Thomo and others use parliament privilidge for a reason. Pickering is in public and has put himself in direct line of a defimation suit. Pickering still being able to write this stuff, is enough anyone needs to know about the guilt of said subject. Gillard/labor are too scared to make waves on this in fear the story will break loose(no more scared media) and all hell breaking loose. Soooo.... what part of delusional fanboi did you not get?

I got you are a labor fanboy, delusional of the fact that pickering has left himself wide open for litigation.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 9:35am:

Gist wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:26am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:22am: You obviously have not noticed. Liberals are on track for the next election without the notion that they are or have been harassing a member like thomo, slipper ect (hey will get their day in gaol umm court) This is going to have to come from someone else, pickering even. Thomo and others use parliament privilidge for a reason. Pickering is in public and has put himself in direct line of a defimation suit. Pickering still being able to write this stuff, is enough anyone needs to know about the guilt of said subject. Gillard/labor are too scared to make waves on this in fear the story will break loose(no more scared media) and all hell breaking loose. Soooo.... what part of delusional fanboi did you not get? I got you are a labor fanboy, delusional of the fact that pickering has left himself wide open for litigation.

But surely, if litigation is forthcoming, Pickering would not be so stupid as to make allegations and comments when he has no evidence to support it?    This why I believe the Libs haven't gone any further - they must have had a team thoroughly investigate this and found that there were more 'cons' than 'pros'.  After the embarrassment of Utegate and Godwin Grech, perhaps they are a bit more wary now.    

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 9:35am:

Gist wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:26am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:22am: You obviously have not noticed. Liberals are on track for the next election without the notion that they are or have been harassing a member like thomo, slipper ect (hey will get their day in gaol umm court) This is going to have to come from someone else, pickering even. Thomo and others use parliament privilidge for a reason. Pickering is in public and has put himself in direct line of a defimation suit. Pickering still being able to write this stuff, is enough anyone needs to know about the guilt of said subject. Gillard/labor are too scared to make waves on this in fear the story will break loose(no more scared media) and all hell breaking loose. Soooo.... what part of delusional fanboi did you not get? I got you are a labor fanboy, delusional of the fact that pickering has left himself wide open for litigation.

Which isn't proof of anything other than that he's a moron with a big mouth.

lisa.greek wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 9:57am:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:35am: Gist wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:26am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:22am: You obviously have not noticed. Liberals are on track for the next election without the notion that they are or have been harassing a member like thomo, slipper ect (hey will get their day in gaol umm court) This is going to have to come from someone else, pickering even. Thomo and others use parliament privilidge for a reason. Pickering is in public and has put himself in direct line of a defimation suit. Pickering still being able to write this stuff, is enough anyone needs to know about the guilt of said subject. Gillard/labor are too scared to make waves on this in fear the story will break loose(no more scared media) and all hell breaking loose. Soooo.... what part of delusional fanboi did you not get? I got you are a labor fanboy, delusional of the fact that pickering has left himself wide open for litigation. But surely, if litigation is forthcoming, Pickering would not be so stupid as to make allegations and comments when he has no evidence to support it?    This why I believe the Libs haven't gone any further - they must have had a team thoroughly investigate this and found that there were more 'cons' than 'pros'.  After the embarrassment of Utegate and Godwin Grech, perhaps they are a bit more wary now.

Absolutely, they are wary. There is a new dynamic. The bag man.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 10:11am:

Absolutely, they are wary. There is a new dynamic. The bag man.

Yep. They wouldn't want to be caught with a bagman and a ute again.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 10:11am:

lisa.greek wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:57am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:35am: Gist wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:26am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:22am: You obviously have not noticed. Liberals are on track for the next election without the notion that they are or have been harassing a member like thomo, slipper ect (hey will get their day in gaol umm court) This is going to have to come from someone else, pickering even. Thomo and others use parliament privilidge for a reason. Pickering is in public and has put himself in direct line of a defimation suit. Pickering still being able to write this stuff, is enough anyone needs to know about the guilt of said subject. Gillard/labor are too scared to make waves on this in fear the story will break loose(no more scared media) and all hell breaking loose. Soooo.... what part of delusional fanboi did you not get? I got you are a labor fanboy, delusional of the fact that pickering has left himself wide open for litigation. But surely, if litigation is forthcoming, Pickering would not be so stupid as to make allegations and comments when he has no evidence to support it?    This why I believe the Libs haven't gone any further - they must have had a team thoroughly investigate this and found that there were more 'cons' than 'pros'.  After the embarrassment of Utegate and Godwin Grech, perhaps they are a bit more wary now.     Absolutely, they are wary. There is a new dynamic. The bag man.

OK, so apart from postings on boards, what is the next step?   If the Libs can't/won't progress it (as you would think they would)  Who will champion Pickering's allegations and protect him in court?

lisa.greek wrote on Aug 17^th, 2012 at 10:23am:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 10:11am: lisa.greek wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:57am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:35am: Gist wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:26am: progressiveslol wrote on Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:22am: You obviously have not noticed. Liberals are on track for the next election without the notion that they are or have been harassing a member like thomo, slipper ect (hey will get their day in gaol umm court) This is going to have to come from someone else, pickering even. Thomo and others use parliament privilidge for a reason. Pickering is in public and has put himself in direct line of a defimation suit. Pickering still being able to write this stuff, is enough anyone needs to know about the guilt of said subject. Gillard/labor are too scared to make waves on this in fear the story will break loose(no more scared media) and all hell breaking loose. Soooo.... what part of delusional fanboi did you not get? I got you are a labor fanboy, delusional of the fact that pickering has left himself wide open for litigation. But surely, if litigation is forthcoming, Pickering would not be so stupid as to make allegations and comments when he has no evidence to support it?    This why I believe the Libs haven't gone any further - they must have had a team thoroughly investigate this and found that there were more 'cons' than 'pros'.  After the embarrassment of Utegate and Godwin Grech, perhaps they are a bit more wary now.     Absolutely, they are wary. There is a new dynamic. The bag man. OK, so apart from postings on boards, what is the next step?   If the Libs can't/won't progress it (as you would think they would)  Who will champion Pickering's allegations and protect him in court?

Pickering wants it to go to court. I somehow dont think he needs protecting.

This will get picked up by media and parliament after the bagman spills the beans.

Julia Gillard is the Barking Moonbat of the decade - she is a phenomenon of political lunacy... ;D ;D
http://images.theage.com.au/2012/05/07/3276372/gillard729-420x0.jpg :D :D

Being exposed

Revealed: Julia Gillard lost her job after law firm's secret investigation


JULIA Gillard left her job as a partner with law firm Slater & Gordon as a direct result of a secret internal probe in 1995 into controversial work she had done for her then boyfriend, a union boss accused of corruption, The Weekend Australian can reveal.

Nick Styant-Browne, a former equity partner of the firm, broke a 17-year silence yesterday to reveal that the firm's probe included a confidential formal interview with the Prime Minister - then an industrial lawyer - on September 11, 1995, which was "recorded and transcribed".

In the interview, Ms Gillard stated that she could not categorically rule out that she had personally benefited from union funds in the renovation of her Melbourne house, according to Mr Styant-Browne.

She said in the interview that she believed she had paid for all the work and materials, and had receipts, which she later produced.

The firm's probe revolved around Ms Gillard's work since mid-1992 for the Australian Workers Union and her then boyfriend - the AWU's ambitious leader at the time, Bruce Wilson - as well as her direct role in establishing the AWU Workplace Reform Association for Mr Wilson.

Mr Styant-Browne's revelations today mark the first time that anyone among the former and present partners of her employer before she started her political career has spoken on the record about matters that have controversially dogged Ms Gillard since 1995.

Mr Styant-Browne, now a Seattle-based lawyer, said the partnership "took a very serious view" of these and other matters, "and accepted her resignation".

"The firm was scrupulous to ensure these matters were both properly investigated and Ms Gillard was given every opportunity to explain her involvement," Mr Styant-Browne said. "Ms Gillard conveyed to me that she thought she had been 'shabbily' treated after eight years of service."

In response to a series of detailed questions from The Weekend Australian, a spokesman for Ms Gillard said last night she had "made clear that she was not involved in any wrongdoing, and has dealt with these allegations previously". "The Prime Minister maintains good relations with Slater & Gordon," he said.

The legal entity that Ms Gillard began to establish for Mr Wilson from mid-1992 was used by Mr Wilson and his then friend, AWU bagman and West Australian branch head Ralph Blewitt, to allegedly corruptly receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from large companies.

The companies were told their money would pay for safety and training of AWU members on major work sites. However, the funds were allegedly siphoned off for purposes including the personal use of Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt. At the time, the AWU's then national leaders, Ian Cambridge and Bill Ludwig, were not made aware of the entity's existence. They were unaware that large sums of money had been going into accounts linked to the association, and that those funds were subsequently withdrawn by Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt for purposes including the purchase of a $230,000 house in Kerr Street, Fitzroy. Mr Cambridge called on the federal Labor government to establish a royal commission into what he regarded as serious and criminal rorting by union officials.

Ms Gillard has repeatedly and strenuously denied that she had any knowledge of what the association that she had set up was going to be used for. She has also denied receiving any benefit from the funds. She has repeatedly rejected claims made in parliament that renovations to her own house in Melbourne in the early-to-mid 1990s were part-funded by money allegedly siphoned off by Mr Wilson.

Mr Styant-Browne revealed yesterday that Ms Gillard had said in her formal interview on September 11, 1995, that "she could not categorically deny AWU union or (AWU) Workplace Reform Association monies" had been used in the renovation of her own house in Melbourne. He said she had subsequently produced receipts for work done on the Abbotsford property.

In a two-page statement to The Weekend Australian, Mr Styant-Browne also revealed unusual circumstances surrounding what he described as Ms Gillard's "legal and related work to establish the AWU Workplace Reform Association in Western Australia".

He said that in her formal interview, Ms Gillard had confirmed that "she did not open a file at the firm" to establish the association, and that she could not at the time recall any reason why a file was not opened. He said that she had stated that no other lawyer at the firm worked on the matter, and "to her recollection, no other lawyer was consulted". She stated in the interview that she "was not involved in opening or operating any bank accounts for the association," Mr Styant-Browne said.

Referring to the recorded interview, Mr Styant-Browne said: "She understood the purpose of the association was to hold re-election funds for union officials contributed by individual union members and fundraisers. She stated it was referred to as a re-election or slush fund. She had been in a relationship with Mr Wilson for nearly four years commencing in late 1991.

"She and Mr Wilson attended the auction of 85 Kerr Street, Fitzroy in early 1993 where Mr Wilson made a successful bid for the house which was purchased in the name of Ralph Blewitt. Mr Blewitt did not attend the auction. She understood the house was a property investment made by Mr Blewitt, and that Mr Wilson would live there as a trusted tenant. She believed this arrangement suited them both.

"She had extensively renovated her own house in Abbotsford. Mr Wilson had assisted in the renovations. She believed she had paid for all the work and materials, and had receipts which she agreed to produce. She was aware someone had sought payment from the AWU for work and materials he had supplied for the house. He was mistaken or misinformed. But she could not categorically deny AWU union or Workplace Association monies had been used for any of the work. As at the time of the interview, her relationship with Mr Wilson had recently ended."

Mr Styant-Browne said the conduct of Slater & Gordon in waiving its conveyancing fee for the purchase of the Fitzroy house and lending $150,000 to complete the sale was not unusual.

"Like many law firms, Slater & Gordon regularly did discounted or free conveyances for clients who held office in its client corporations or organisations. Like any labour law firm, the fees for these conveyances for union officials were regularly waived, " he said.

"Slater & Gordon conducted a solicitors' contributory mortgage practice, which made loans secured by first mortgage over properties up to a percentage of a sworn valuation obtained for the specific purpose of the loan. A partner of the firm was designated as the trustee for the mortgage on behalf of the contributors, and signed the mortgage in that capacity. Legal fees or disbursements for the mortgage formed part of the loan, as was the case for the Kerr Street mortgage. The Kerr Street conveyance and mortgage were both unexceptionable transactions for the firm's conveyancing and mortgage practice.

"As for the florid allegations suggesting a cover-up by Slater & Gordon made in some radio interviews and online media, they are utterly absurd."

Explaining his reasons for speaking out after a long silence, Mr Styant-Browne, 54, who is not a member of any political party, said: "It has recently become clear to me that there is a genuine public interest in this story, which has prompted my statement now".

The Australian revealed earlier this month that Mr Wilson's former close friend, Mr Blewitt, wanted to expose the extent of his alleged scam with Mr Wilson, and that he would admit his own wrongdoing if he received an indemnity from prosecution. Mr Blewitt, 66, said: "My greatest fear is that I incriminate myself but this has to come out now".

The Australian has also reported that internal documents, newly released under Freedom of Information, from an exhaustive police probe at the time show detectives suspected Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt, were "crooks" and wanted them criminally prosecuted over a $400,000-plus alleged fraud. The documents from the police file include letters showing leaders of the AWU, which remains the most influential industrial supporter of the federal Labor government, were deeply annoyed that the two men were not charged with criminal offences.

The managing director of Slater & Gordon, Andrew Grech, has begun contacting its former clients including Mr Blewitt, Mr Wilson and the AWU, "asking that they agree to waive their right to legal privilege attaching to lawyer-client communication so that we can respond to the public allegations that have been made".

"We are not prepared to have our firm's reputation impugned by the allegations relating to these matters, which occurred almost two decades ago," Mr Grech told The Australian last week.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/investigations/revealed-julia-gillard-lost-her-job-after-law-firms-secret-investigation/story-fn6tcxar-1226452973559

the morons are still at it I see ......

John Smith wrote on Aug 18^th, 2012 at 8:57am:

the morons are still at it I see ......

Is Juliar still opening union accounts?

Good onya Larry Pickering for pressuring this statement from slater and gordon out into the public.

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 18^th, 2012 at 8:52am:

"We are not prepared to have our firm's reputation impugned by the allegations relating to these matters, which occurred almost two decades ago," Mr Grech told The Australian last week.

That's not Godwin's brother is it?  :o

Slater and Gordon were rushing to protect themselves last I heard...

does that mean distance themselves from the PM gizzard?????????

cods wrote on Aug 18^th, 2012 at 9:41am:

Slater and Gordon were rushing to protect themselves last I heard... does that mean distance themselves from the PM gizzard?????????

It looks like they are trying to get the knowledge out there that there was a rougue in their ranks (gillard) and they dealt with it accordingly.

They will be trying to protect themselves by showing what they did after the fact and any policies now in place to make sure it never happens again.

Gist wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 11:32am:

Let's see... The so-called Thomson saga becomes Jacksonville - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. The so-called Slipper affair becomes Slippergate - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. Oh! Now we have Gillardgate? Smears against the PM which could bring down a government? I wonder... could it be?? Nah! Surely not?!?

You forgot Utegate -  the hilariously botched attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign.

rabbitoh07 wrote on Aug 18^th, 2012 at 12:03pm:

Gist wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:32am: Let's see... The so-called Thomson saga becomes Jacksonville - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. The so-called Slipper affair becomes Slippergate - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. Oh! Now we have Gillardgate? Smears against the PM which could bring down a government? I wonder... could it be?? Nah! Surely not?!? You forgot Utegate -  the hilariously botched attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign.

And Ashbygate    the hilariously botched attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign

lisa.greek wrote on Aug 18^th, 2012 at 1:59pm:

rabbitoh07 wrote on Aug 18th, 2012 at 12:03pm: Gist wrote on Aug 3rd, 2012 at 11:32am: Let's see... The so-called Thomson saga becomes Jacksonville - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. The so-called Slipper affair becomes Slippergate - the ongoing attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. Oh! Now we have Gillardgate? Smears against the PM which could bring down a government? I wonder... could it be?? Nah! Surely not?!? You forgot Utegate -  the hilariously botched attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign. And Ashbygate    the hilariously botched attempt by persons in the Lieberal party to bring down a government through a dirty smear campaign

Oh..and Abbottgate......wait...is he still leader!?!?!

IS OUR PRIME MINISTER A CROOK? VI

... and why she refuses to comment.

The can is now open and cannibalistic worms are sweating over who will devour who first. The five-part story so far, including accusations made on pickeringpost.com, now emerges as facts. Facts Gillard can no longer ignore.

Slater & Gordon’s recent flurry of TV ads does little to restore its already shattered reputation.
If they dump further on Gillard they risk Gillard dumping on them. There is a communal agreement to stonewall but, once that wall is breached, gunk will flow like a lanced boil.

Gillard said, “I resigned voluntarily”. That is a lie.
Gillard said, “I did not know what the accounts were for.” That is also a lie.
Gillard said, “I had receipts for work done on my property.” That is a deception. She had receipts for maybe a new lamp-shade and a fancy soap-holder.

Gillard says she can’t be certain that extorted funds weren’t used on her renovations. Mmmm.

Nick Styant-Brown, of Slater & Gordon, called Gillard in for a taped interview regarding what she had been up to.
Do partners of a major law firm do that to each other for fun? I think not.

Styant-Brown said, “...the company took a very serious view of these and other matters and accepted her resignation”.

“Took a very serious view” of exactly what, Julia?
What exactly were these “other matters”, Julia?

Gillard says, “I was treated very shabbily”. For what reason, Julia, do you believe you were treated “very shabbily”?

Why did Slater & Gordon lend $130,000, in the form of a mortgage on the Kerr Street property, to Wilson? Wilson was an AWU Boss. The union would have been only too happy to supply a mortgage.

Why go to the AWU’s law firm, Slater & Gordon? Why did Wilson get his girlfriend, Julia Gillard, to secretly facilitate the laundering of funds and why did Slater & Gordon hide this from their client, the AWU?

Why wasn’t the AWU, informed of anything at all? Why didn’t they know of the fraudulent account Gillard set up in the AWU’s name? Why did it take the renovator’s invoices mistakenly turning up at the AWU before the scam was uncovered? Why was this kept secret if, as Gillard claims, there was nothing untoward.

Why did Gillard disguise the true owner of the Kerr Street property by drawing up a power of attorney for Wilson to act on behalf of Blewitt? Why was Blewitt not told about the mortgage? Why was Blewitt not told where the proceeds of the sale went?

Why did Gillard refuse to even open a file on this case?

Why did Gillard rush into the AWU with receipts for her renovations if she thought there was nothing untoward?

Slater & Gordon arranged, pro bono, the conveyancing on the Kerr Street property. (They say that is normal for valued clients of the firm.) Therefore they must know of the fraudulent funds and the fraudulent accounts?

They must also know where the stolen funds came from and where they went to after the sale of the property? Did they not even ask or make a note of this?

Slater & Gordon spuriously wants Wilson and Blewitt to waive privilege so they can produce these files. Mmmm... are there two people in Australia less likely to waive privilege without immunity?

Where are Paul Howes’ files. Why has the AWU called off the dogs? Why won’t they cooperate with police? A Court ordered certain funds be returned to the AWU. So why does the AWU refuse to pursue those funds? Originally they demanded a Royal Commission! What has changed, Paul?

Slater & Gordon are complicit and will eventually dump on Gillard to save their own skin. The prime Minister has insisted they make a statement supporting her. But they have already begun the process with a call to Styant-Brown.

Gillard’s own Attorney General, Rob Mc Clelland, was the co-author of the damning Cambridge affidavit. Was he talking crap when he said, “...a third party may have benefitted from this.”

When Slater & Gordon taped the interview with Gillard I would think the conversation went more like this:

Gillard:
Why are you treating me this shabbily? We are all partners! Why is it only me who has to resign? I’ve been here eight bloody years and this is what I get? It wasn’t just me, it was Murphy and Rothfield too!

Slater & Gordon:
Murphy is also going. We need to protect the firm.
In seventeen years’ time, Julia, there will be others who will also insist you resign or be sacked.

What will you do then Julia?

[Part VII covers Shorten and the unions’ influence and further damning information from FOI. Also the history of the faceless men and how they run our Parliament without our knowledge and the way in which Slater & Gordon operates. There is so much more to this sordid little tale

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Larry-Pickering/236991276355038

I see
Prog  is still trying to give prevailing a good run for his money in the forum  loony stakes,and he's doing a fking good job of it too.

skippy. wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 4:41pm:

I see Prog  is still trying to give prevailing a good run for his money in the forum  loony stakes,and he's doing a fking good job of it too.

Thanks skip. That means alot from the forum fool of your stature.

PM was questioned about it on Insiders today.

Shane B wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 4:47pm:

PM was questioned about it on Insiders today.

Yeh she was.

Shane B wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 4:47pm:

PM was questioned about it on Insiders today.

WOW, matty, did you Bone up?

Shane B wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 4:47pm:

PM was questioned about it on Insiders today.

And can you quote that exchange here for us?

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 4:35pm:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Larry-Pickering/236991276355038

FACEBOOK!!???!???  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D


I think Larry Pickering has long since stopped growing tomatoes and has been secretly growing some other tall green herb. For medicinal purposes you understand. And been taking FFFAAAAAAAARRRRR too much of it in.

And it looks like lolly is his biggest sucker fan.  ;D ;D ;D

I'm really looking forward to this one! Can we call it TOMATOEGATE??!?

OOO!

OOO!

Larry could even use the ute to cart the tomatoes in!! That'd be PERFECT!!  ;D ;D ;D

HEY!

I see where Pickering has branched out from growing tomatoes and is now into chillies!

http://chilliandspice.com.au/images/products/preview/chilli%20seeds%20-%20peter%20penis.jpg

Gist wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 5:13pm:

HEY! I see where Pickering has branched out from growing tomatoes and is now into chillies! http://chilliandspice.com.au/images/products/preview/chilli%20seeds%20-%20peter%20penis.jpg

Does phony Tony know Larry has that "chillie"? Because phony tony will need it back for the next speedo photo shoot.

PK: I want to refer to the article in yesterday’s Australian. Is it correct, that in 1995 you had to resign as a partner at Slater and Gordon as a result of their investigation into misappropriation of funds around the legal entity that you had established?

JG: I am not dignifying all of this scurrilous campaigning by going through these things point by point, Paul. We are talking about matters 17 years ago which have been dealt with on the public record for most of that time. As long as 15 years ago these matters were dealt with on the public record. I did nothing wrong. If you’ve got an allegation I did something wrong, then put it. If you don’t have an allegation I did something wrong then let’s ask a question that matters to the nation today. On Slater and Gordon you’re talking about a firm with which I’ve got continuing good relationships and as recently as the last few weeks was giving a speech in their building and greeting staff at their Sydney office.
PK: Okay, well, can I just ask, given your good relations with the firm, would you like to see them make some statement to clarify this matter?
JG: Look, what Slater and Gordon says is a matter for Slater and Gordon but, Paul, my essential point here is there’s delving into matters 17 years ago for what purpose? If you’ve got an allegation I did something wrong, put it. If you can’t put it, why are we talking about this?
PK: No, no, I’ve got no allegation but the point is ...
JG: Well, if you’ve got no allegation and I’ve not seen in yesterday’s Australian or anywhere else an allegation put about my conduct. If there is no allegation to deal with then why are we dealing with this issue when we could be dealing with the Australian economy, schools, health.
PK: No, we’re very keen to deal with those issues but there were a series of allegations made in yesterday’s Australian by a former senior partner which questioned your integrity. Surely you need to respond to those allegations?
JG: Well, I am not going to get into a circumstance where we’ve got people blogging malicious nonsense and we’ve got some of this penetrating to the media. I am not going to get myself into a circumstance where I’m going to spend my time dealing with these events 17 years ago when the people who are asking me questions about them are unable to even articulate what it is that they say I did wrong. This is just nonsense and a distraction from the important work I’ve got to do as Prime Minister and the important issues for this nation’s future. I’ve just said to you, Paul, I continue to have very good relationships with Slater and Gordon, you know, going and greeting the staff and all of that kind of stuff. It’s not the first time I’ve done that. It won’t be the last time I do that.
PK: Okay, I understand your point. You’re saying it’s all nonsense. Can I just ask you then this direct question .. .the central point ..
JG: Well, Paul I’ve dealt ....
PK: No, hang on… The central point was, the central point was the partner alleged you had to resign because of this issue, is that correct or not?
JG: Look, Paul, I did resign from Slater and Gordon, that’s a matter of public record. I made the decision to do that. All the rest of this is just the sort of scurrilous ....
PK: But you’re not answering this specific point ...
JG: Paul, I’m not getting in to specifics about issues 17 years ago when you are not able to put to me any contention about why this is relevant to my conduct as Prime Minister today. I mean join the dots for me, Paul. What matters about this today for Australia and me being Prime Minister? Just articulate that.
PK: Well, I will. The point is that a partner in your former firm has made a series of allegations which go to your integrity.
JG: And the relevance to me being Prime Minister today, Paul?

PK: Well, well, I think when accusations are made about the integrity of a Prime Minister going to the profession position she had before she came into politics ... surely that is relevant?
JG: And, Paul, I did nothing wrong. Are you challenging that?
PK: No, I’m just asking questions.
JG: Well, and this is the issue, isn’t it? Because I understand you’re being asked to ask questions today.
PK: No, no, no, sorry, there’s no-one asking me to ask questions.
JG: Well, that wasn’t my advice a little bit earlier before this show.
PK: Well, I’m sorry Prime Minister, I ask my own questions and nobody tells me what questions to ask.
JG: And I’ll give you an answer to them. I did nothing wrong, Paul. Have you got an allegation to put to me? If you do not, why are we discussing this?

PVO: Can I just ask one question on this and then we’ll move on. Last question. Why not just put it all out there? I believe you that you did nothing wrong. I made a comment on Friday on my show “The Contrarians” that I thought this is all a beat up and we should move on to the major issues. But why not just address it straight down the barrell so that we can move on and all of this scuttlebutt that goes on online, which frankly I’m sick of people emailing me about this, we can just move on from it.
JG: Well, Peter, let me welcome but also question your grand naivety. These people who are dealing with this online in their malicious and motivated way would not stop not matter what explanations I gave. You know that, I know that and that is why there is no point in flogging through all of the details of this because people who are pursuing this malicious campaign will continue to do it. They are not at all interested in the truth. The truth is I did nothing wrong. No-one has put any direct assertion to me. You haven’t done it today, it hasn’t been done in the newspaper that I did anything wrong. In these circumstances why are we 17 years later, when these matters have been dealt with on the public record for the best part of a decade and a half, still talking about this?

It is a lurid tale involving an old political cartoonist, a retired lawyer, the Prime Minister and her former boyfriend, an alleged fraudster.

If you believe the cartoonist, Larry Pickering, whose dislike for Julia Gillard is palpable in his sometimes obscene cartoons, the scandalous details could finally bring down the Prime Minister.

But if you don't buy the claims Pickering is peddling about Ms Gillard when she was a Slater & Gordon lawyer acting for her then lover, Bruce Wilson - an alleged embezzler of Australian Workers Union funds - why hasn't she done anything to stop his vitriolic missives?


Lawyer turned author Harry Nowicki.

The case became even more intriguing yesterday when a former Slater & Gordon equity lawyer, Nick Styant-Browne, told The Australian that Ms Gillard had lost her job after an internal investigation by the law firm into work she had done for Mr Wilson. He said that, in a recorded interview, Ms Gillard said she could not categorically rule out she had personally benefited from union funds in the renovation of her home - although she believed she had paid for all the work and produced receipts. Mr Styant-Browne said the partners took a very serious view about the matter ''and accepted her resignation''.

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A spokesman for Ms Gillard said yesterday that she had ''made it clear that she was not involved in any wrongdoing, and has dealt with these allegations previously''.

This story has dogged Ms Gillard over and over again since it was first raised under privilege in the Victorian Parliament in October 1995. At the time, she denied any wrongdoing and said she was still a partner at Slater & Gordon and ''had no intention of leaving''. Within months of the matters being raised by the then Victorian minister for industry and employment, Phil Gude, she had resigned and left the firm.


Cartoonist and storyteller Larry Pickering.

By 2007, when the issues were raised again, she was about to become the deputy prime minister. She said in a candid interview that she was ''young and naive'' when she fell for Bruce Morton Wilson, the alleged conman who is accused of siphoning off $500,000 in union funds while he was the AWU secretary in Western Australia and Victoria in the early 1990s.

''I was in a relationship, which I ended, and obviously it was all very distressing,'' she told the veteran political journalist Glenn Milne. ''I am by no means the first person to find out that someone close turns out to be different to what you had believed them to be. It's an ordinary human error.''

AWU officials blew the whistle on the alleged fraud in 1995 after discovering numerous unauthorised bank accounts in the name of the union allegedly set up by Mr Wilson. They complained to police in Western Australia and Victoria but no charges were ever laid. In Victoria, police had said there was not enough evidence. When the stories resurfaced yet again last year in a column by Milne, with a suggestion that Ms Gillard had unknowingly benefited from the alleged wrongdoing of Mr Wilson, she threatened legal action - and Milne was swiftly removed as a columnist with The Australian.

Yet for weeks now, Pickering has been publishing a running commentary, a veritable soap opera, entitled Is the Prime Minister a Crook? It is published on his website, The Pickering Post, which he also emails to a large list of subscribers. It makes allegations that are much worse than those aired in Milne's column.

Pickering goes as far as to say the Prime Minister was sacked as a partner with Slater & Gordon. Slater & Gordon says she resigned and her resignation was accepted. Peter Gordon, who Pickering says did the pushing, now works for himself. He did not return The Sun-Herald's calls.

Pickering's storyline has become grubbier and more personal. By his own admission, he uses a lot of poetic licence. He embellishes this with salacious details about Ms Gillard and Mr Wilson's relationship, and he drops some of the nations biggest names in construction and politics.

''I have used melodrama,'' Pickering tells The Sun-Herald. ''That is what gets people in and gets them interested.''

It has certainly spiked the interest of radio stalwarts Derryn Hinch, Alan Jones and Steve Price, and the columnist Andrew Bolt.

Pickering's instalments start with the likes of, ''Julia Gillard was in tears when she called Bruce Wilson …'' or ''Julia wandered aimlessly around her Abbotsford home. She had been unemployed for almost six months after being sacked from Slater & Gordon …''

Most of the mainstream media have avoided the story with the exception of The Australian, which has shown a renewed interest in the allegations. Although Ms Gillard was asked about it in a media doorstop last week, she remained composed and batted off the questions. She has not responded to questions from The Sun-Herald about Pickering's blog or whether she will take action against him.

But in Melbourne last week, Hinch broadcast an interview with Pickering discussing the latest revelations, much of them based on the work of Harry Nowicki, a retired lawyer who once worked for the former Builders Labourers Federation, and who has been researching his book on the AWU.

It has been Mr Nowicki's extensive inquiries about the AWU scandal that led him to discover another major player, the now self-confessed bent union organiser Ralph Blewitt. Mr Blewitt, who lives in Asia, has said he wants to come clean about his role in the alleged fraud with Mr Wilson, which involved scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars from building companies including Thiess Contracting, John Holland, Fluor Daniel and Woodside.

Blewitt has told The Australian he would tell all he knows about the scams, no matter who it embarrasses - if he is given indemnity from prosecution.

Mr Nowicki has also enlisted the Victorian barrister and former head of the National Crime Authority, Peter Faris, QC, and asked him to review the details of the case, and the role of Slater & Gordon. The report will be given to the Law Institute of Victoria.

Mr Nowicki has been using freedom of information to get access to the police files about the investigations into the fraud.

The documents show that West Australian police wanted to prosecute the men for the fraud but were thwarted because they could not get the company they believed to be the biggest victim, Thiess Contracting, to agree to file a police complaint.

The head of Thiess at the time was Mr Wilson's brother-in-law, Joe Trio, and the documents show that he told police he did not believe the company had been defrauded.

Mr Trio comes in for some serious allegations in Pickering's Post, but he told The Sun-Herald last week he was at the moment ignoring it as just the ravings of union thugs.

He said the allegations about his involvement were ''garbage and a load of nonsense''. When asked why he had not taken action to stop Pickering, Mr Trio said he would not rule it out.

Slater & Gordon, however, is anxious to clear its reputation and will ask the AWU to release it from client confidentiality.

Andrew Grech, Slater & Gordon's managing director, said the allegations related to matters that took place 17 to 20 years ago and were conducted by lawyers who left the firm in 1995.

''We hope that we are released from our obligations of confidentially so that we can speak freely about these matters,'' he said.

Paul Howes, the national secretary of the AWU, said he would consider that matter when asked by Slater & Gordon.

Pickering, meanwhile, is vowing to continue. He says he is being provided with the intimate details by people who want the truth to finally come out. Among them, he says, are former unionists, former employees of Mr Wilson and some members and former members of the Labor Party.

''I get a lot of people sending me stuff and calling me up.''

Pickering said he was not surprised that Ms Gillard had not taken legal action against him, but wishes she would. ''It would open a can of worms,'' he said.

However, he said his website was suffering an increasing number of cyber attacks trying to shut it down. On Friday the attacks were successful and his account was suspended.

''They may silence us for a while but the truth will out,'' Pickering says. ''Much more to come.''

http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-pm-an-old-flame-and-a-lot-of-smoke-20120818-24f3m.html

Gist wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 5:08pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 19th, 2012 at 4:35pm: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Larry-Pickering/236991276355038 FACEBOOK!!???!???  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I think Larry Pickering has long since stopped growing tomatoes and has been secretly growing some other tall green herb. For medicinal purposes you understand. And been taking FFFAAAAAAAARRRRR too much of it in. And it looks like lolly is his biggest sucker fan.  ;D ;D ;D

Normally I wouldnt, but it is well known now that anything is ok by the leftist using a non-independent site calling itself independent, but just a labor hack site.

But with pickering being shut down due to hacking attempts, then any media will do.

The sad losers in the Liberal conga line of suckholes must be really desperate now combing through old sh it like this. Prog will no doubt post up an interview with Gillards ex girl guides leader saying she was suspended from the guides for wearing her hair in a pony tail instead of pig tails.

skippy. wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 5:23pm:

The sad losers in the Liberal conga line of suckholes must be really desperate now combing through old sh it like this. Prog will no doubt post up an interview with Gillards ex girl guides leader saying she was suspended from the guides for wearing her hair in a pony tail instead of pig tails.

Yeh, like that has anything to do with millions of dollars and being a naive partner in a law firm. Gee, I might even try out for a partner in a law form as they come so cheaply and stupid apparently.

Better yet, we should all ask law firms not to present their partners for any work, as they are likely to be as stupid as gillard, or is that only in slater and gordon?

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 5:27pm:

skippy. wrote on Aug 19th, 2012 at 5:23pm: The sad losers in the Liberal conga line of suckholes must be really desperate now combing through old sh it like this. Prog will no doubt post up an interview with Gillards ex girl guides leader saying she was suspended from the guides for wearing her hair in a pony tail instead of pig tails. Yeh, like that has anything to do with millions of dollars and being a naive partner in a law firm. Gee, I might even try out for a partner in a law form as they come so cheaply and stupid apparently. Better yet, we should all ask law firms not to present their partners for any work, as they are likely to be as stupid as gillard, or is that only in slater and gordon?

Paging bitter party OF ONE, your table awaits you.

http://www.news.com.au/national/pm-julia-gillard-refuses-to-answer-allegations-she-resigned-from-a-law-firm-after-of-a-union-scandal/story-fndo4eg9-1226453434111

PM Julia Gillard refuses to answer allegations she resigned from a law firm after a union scandal

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UPDATE: PRIME Minister Julia Gillard must address parliament about the circumstances surrounding her resignation from a prominent law firm in the face of fresh claims that she'd left under a cloud of controversy, the opposition says.

Ms Gillard has repeatedly refused to answer fresh allegations she resigned from a major law firm as a direct result of a union scandal involving her then boyfriend.

In an interview on Sky News' Australian Agenda this morning, Ms Gillard was asked on a number of occasions about the case involving her former partner and ex-Australian Workers Union official Bruce Wilson.

She confirmed she did resign in 1995 and it was her decision to do so but did not answer whether it was linked to the scandal - as claimed by a former partner of the firm at the weekend.

Ms Gillard instead said she was the victim of an online smear campaign that was not interested in the truth and said the case had no relevance to her prime ministership.

"I am not dignifying all of this scurrilous campaigning by going through these things point by point," Ms Gillard said.

"If you've got an allegation I did something wrong, then put it. I did nothing wrong. This is nonsense and a distraction from the important work I have to do as Prime Minister."

She added that she had recently given a speech to the firm and had good relations with them.

Asked again whether the resignation was a direct result of the scandal, Ms Gillard said: "I did resign from Slater & Gordon. That is a matter of public record. I made the decision to do that."
But Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the prime minister should make a full statement to parliament about the circumstances under which she left the law firm.

"I think there are real issues that the prime minister needs to address and if she would like to make a statement to the parliament this week the coalition will gladly facilitate it," Mr Abbott said.

"Let's not forget, these issues were most recently raised in the parliament not by the coalition but by a member of her own (party), Robert McClelland."

Defence Minister Stephen Smith played down the issue.

"What does something that occurred 17 years ago with respect to a law firm she was working with that she now has an ongoing good relationship (with) have to do with the big issues of running the economy and running our national security interests?" Mr Smith said on Network Ten.

But the manager of opposition business Christopher Pyne said the issue raised very serious questions about the prime minister's integrity.

"There are serious questions that need to be answered," Mr Pyne said.

"The intensity (of this issue) has become much more dramatic."

Ms Gillard’s rebuffs comes after Nick Styant-Browne, a former equity partner of the firm, broke a 17-year silence broke his silence at the weekend to reveal Ms Gillard was interviewed about the affair in 1995.

Mr Styant-Browne said during that Ms Gillard stated in the interview that she could not categorically rule out that she had personally benefited from union funds in the renovation of her Melbourne house.

The Australian reported on Saturday that she said in the interview that she believed she had paid for all the work and materials, and had receipts, which she later produced.

Mr Styant-Browne said the company "took a very serious view" of these and other matters "and accepted her resignation".

"The firm was scrupulous to ensure these matters were both properly investigated and Ms Gillard was given every opportunity to explain her involvement," Mr Styant-Browne told The Australian.

"Ms Gillard conveyed to me that she thought she had been 'shabbily' treated after eight years of service."

The firm's probe revolved around Ms Gillard's work since mid-1992 for the Australian Workers Union and Mr Wilson as well as her direct role in establishing the AWU Workplace Reform Association for Mr Wilson.

The legal entity that Ms Gillard began to establish for Mr Wilson from mid-1992 was used by Mr Wilson and his then friend, AWU bagman and West Australian branch head Ralph Blewitt, to allegedly corruptly receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from large companies.

- with AAP

skippy. wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 5:31pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Aug 19th, 2012 at 5:27pm: skippy. wrote on Aug 19th, 2012 at 5:23pm: The sad losers in the Liberal conga line of suckholes must be really desperate now combing through old sh it like this. Prog will no doubt post up an interview with Gillards ex girl guides leader saying she was suspended from the guides for wearing her hair in a pony tail instead of pig tails. Yeh, like that has anything to do with millions of dollars and being a naive partner in a law firm. Gee, I might even try out for a partner in a law form as they come so cheaply and stupid apparently. Better yet, we should all ask law firms not to present their partners for any work, as they are likely to be as stupid as gillard, or is that only in slater and gordon? Paging bitter party OF ONE, your table awaits you.

Where are you going?

Mr Styant-Browne said during that Ms Gillard stated in the interview that she could not categorically rule out that she had personally benefited from union funds in the renovation of her Melbourne house.

The Australian reported on Saturday that she said in the interview that she believed she had paid for all the work and materials, and had receipts, which she later produced.

Mr Styant-Browne said the company "took a very serious view" of these and other matters "and accepted her resignation".

____________

so shes a simple crook,

charge her..shes never been elected anyway as PM

forgiven

namaste

it_is_the_light wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 5:38pm:

Mr Styant-Browne said during that Ms Gillard stated in the interview that she could not categorically rule out that she had personally benefited from union funds in the renovation of her Melbourne house. The Australian reported on Saturday that she said in the interview that she believed she had paid for all the work and materials, and had receipts, which she later produced. Mr Styant-Browne said the company "took a very serious view" of these and other matters "and accepted her resignation". ____________ so shes a simple crook, charge her..shes never been elected anyway as PM forgiven namaste

At the very least, all evidence should come forth, then gillard answer to us about the evidence.

Then skippy should roll around like a dog, jump up and down3 times and kiss my A

The Prime Minister must be beyond reproach.

There are serious questions and allegations concerning her conduct.

Gillard must resign.

she has resigned in the past

she has proven that she knows how to

namaste

When someone other than a nutjob makes the accusations then I'll start listening.
Until then its just the born to rule cheer squad upset because Tony Abbott didnt know how to negotiate like a professional.

Shane B wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 5:44pm:

The Prime Minister must be beyond reproach. There are serious questions and allegations concerning her conduct. Gillard must resign.

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/crying-baby.jpg

You LOST! Get over it.

Shane B wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 5:17pm:

JG: Look, what Slater and Gordon says is a matter for Slater and Gordon but, Paul, my essential point here is there’s delving into matters 17 years ago for what purpose? If you’ve got an allegation I did something wrong, put it. If you can’t put it, why are we talking about this? PK: No, no, I’ve got no allegation but the point is ... JG: Well, if you’ve got no allegation and I’ve not seen in yesterday’s Australian or anywhere else an allegation put about my conduct. If there is no allegation to deal with then why are we dealing with this issue when we could be dealing with the Australian economy, schools, health.

Thank you. The bit I highlighted is the only significant part of that exchange. Beyond that it's all horse manure and tomatoegate.

Shane B wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 5:44pm:

The Prime Minister must be beyond reproach. There are serious questions and allegations concerning her conduct. Gillard must resign.

Best work yet, matty. should Abbott resign because he was charged with indecent assualt 30 years go?

Slater and Gordon have made an announcement this afternoon that after an investigation Gillard had no case to answer. Back to your new world order conspiracies loony tunes, nothing more to see here. ;D

skippy. wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 6:05pm:

Slater and Gordon have made an announcement this afternoon that after an investigation Gillard had no case to answer. Back to your new world order conspiracies loony tunes, nothing more to see here. ;D

But Pickering surely must know more than her former employer after all he's got no vested interest in this.
Actually I hope she sues him all the way to the poorhouse  ;D

skippy. wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 6:05pm:

Slater and Gordon have made an announcement this afternoon that after an investigation Gillard had no case to answer. Back to your new world order conspiracies loony tunes, nothing more to see here. ;D

can you put that up skippy....it sounded more like they were covering themselves.. as at the end of the day


as she was living with this guy she should not have been allowed to do his legal work?????????????

what is it called conflict of interest... something like that..Gordon and Slater have just as much to lose in this as anyone..

they did the wrong thing she did the wrong thing.. but in a stat dec I have it says quite plainly ONE BIG COVER UP WAS ALLOWED.. TO LET WILSON RESIGN...did you know he even walked away with an redundancy payment...

even though they knew by this time at least a million was missing..

adelcrow wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 6:15pm:

skippy. wrote on Aug 19th, 2012 at 6:05pm: Slater and Gordon have made an announcement this afternoon that after an investigation Gillard had no case to answer. Back to your new world order conspiracies loony tunes, nothing more to see here. ;D But Pickering surely must know more than her former employer after all he's got no vested interest in this. Actually I hope she sues him all the way to the poorhouse  ;D

yeah so do I... at least it will be in the courts and we will see what else pickering has..

he is unafraid..


any bets she wont adel..

cods wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 6:32pm:

skippy. wrote on Aug 19th, 2012 at 6:05pm: Slater and Gordon have made an announcement this afternoon that after an investigation Gillard had no case to answer. Back to your new world order conspiracies loony tunes, nothing more to see here. ;D can you put that up skippy....it sounded more like they were covering themselves.. as at the end of the day as she was living with this guy she should not have been allowed to do his legal work????????????? what is it called conflict of interest... something like that..Gordon and Slater have just as much to lose in this as anyone.. they did the wrong thing she did the wrong thing.. but in a stat dec I have it says quite plainly ONE BIG COVER UP WAS ALLOWED.. TO LET WILSON RESIGN...did you know he even walked away with an redundancy payment... even though they knew by this time at least a million was missing..

Yes a bit incredible isnt it. At the very least, they should be saying how hopeless they were as a law firm to allow a partner to do such things and what great policies they have in place now that make them such a good law firm. Some potential clients may now believe that slater and gordon are and have been lapse in their judgment.

I've said it before and I'll say it again ...... bugger there's some morons on here ......