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Reply #105 - Aug 8th, 2012 at 4:00pm
 
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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!

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Reply #106 - Aug 8th, 2012 at 4:03pm
 
Gist wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 4:00pm:
progressiveslol wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 3:41pm:


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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Reply #108 - Aug 12th, 2012 at 11:50pm
 
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.

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Reply #109 - Aug 12th, 2012 at 11:58pm
 
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”.

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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.

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Reply #110 - Aug 13th, 2012 at 12:06am
 
What should the new Underbelly series be called?
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Reply #111 - Aug 13th, 2012 at 10:55pm
 
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.


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Reply #112 - Aug 13th, 2012 at 11:03pm
 
If Jules survives, next election, this will be
'The Real Real Real(what are we up to) Juliar'
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Reply #113 - Aug 13th, 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.
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Reply #114 - Aug 13th, 2012 at 11:10pm
 
Shane B wrote on Aug 13th, 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_s...


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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"
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Reply #115 - Aug 13th, 2012 at 11:47pm
 
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.

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Reply #116 - Aug 13th, 2012 at 11:53pm
 
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Reply #117 - Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:11pm
 
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.


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Reply #118 - Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:19pm
 
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? Smiley Smiley
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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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