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Reply #300 - Aug 27th, 2012 at 7:37pm
 
The AWU Scandal - I'll share all the documents I have


Over the next few days I’ll try to describe exactly what happened in the AWU scandal and why I think it’s important today.

You can read newspaper articles about it elsewhere.   At the Police Academy we learnt that frauds
are investigated on the documents, the paperwork.

So in this blog I’m going to do my best to set out the documents that will explain what went on. 
You can then form your own view about it.

I am in the debt of a former president of the AWU in Victoria, Bob Kernohan.   

Bob Kernohan was a respondent in proceedings in the Australian Industrial Relations Court that followed the discovery of the AWU scandal.    I’ve inspected Bob’s documents along with several lawyers now and I’m absolutely satisfied as to their authenticity. 

I spoke with Bob for the first time one Friday afternoon last year.  By the following morning Bob had emailed me enough scanned copies of court documents for me to know that his background on this matter was based in fact.   Thanks Bob for your pursuit of the truth.

I’d also like to thank Harry Nowicki for his incredibly detailed investigations into this matter.  Harry first joined Bob and me in November last year.   He brings a forensic and experienced mind to the investigations.   It’s Harry’s application to the WA and Victoria police that has elicited the documents that are marked Police FOI.   Harry has been immensely generous and community-minded in working towards the truth.

I’ve never doubted Harry’s motivation for a moment from the first time I spoke to him last November.   Harry is interested in a truthful, accurate public record on a matter of great public importance.

Bob’s motivation has been unwavering too – he wants the members of the union to get their money back.  Bob’s story hasn’t changed from when he first started kicking up about the matter in the mid 1990s when Jullia Gillard was an obscure lawyer.

There’s no way that Bob is politically motivated.   His story is simple – Ralph Blewitt and Bruce Wilson took off with about $540,000.   If they were meant to keep that money some one should say so, otherwise why hasn’t anyone asked for it back?

And me – I had the best job I have ever known, the talkback job on radio 2UE.   I’d interviewed Craig Thomson and elicited from him the admission that he was the bloke who authorised the Health Services Union paying for the brothel bills.   Then lots more union people got in touch with me with stories like Craig’s, including tips about the AWU.

It broke my heart to lose that job.   I was removed from my on-air position because of editorial differences over the AWU story.    I wanted to broadcast it then and that desire has only grown.

So check this site out over the next few days as I add all the documents I have to set out what went on in the AWU scandal.


http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2012/08/the-awu-scandal-ill-share-all-the-docume...
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Reply #301 - Aug 28th, 2012 at 11:06pm
 
HOW UNIONS WORK:


Stephen Conroy suggested all unionists are involved with “slush funds”. Julia Gillard agrees, and she should know.
They are both correct.

Slush funds are used for election of unionists to official union positions. Such elections are expensive, intimidating and often involve violence and bribery. The stakes are high and internal power plays are the main game. Lucrative rewards at the top fairly equate to the viciousness of the contest.

The AWU is Australia’s biggest and most corrupt union. Myriad other unions, including the BLF and the HSU (East Branch)mimic the corrupt practices. How can they all get away with it? Simply because they can.

The union turmoil in Melbourne today is emblematic of the wider modus operandi of union bosses.

Union bosses are militant by nature because they need to be.
Personal fraudulent riches abound for the successful union boss. That’s why these union offices are so viciously fought for.

The Union boss needs to shove the employer around a bit... soften him up, displaying his ability to cost the employer a small fortune.

He needs to work union members into a frenzy so they will support the “social justice” of a crippling strike. Only then, after he has proved his ability to marshal his forces, can he threaten the now fearful employer with further action. The employer now understands the successful union boss’s power.

The employer, whose ultimate responsibility is to his shareholders, now knows this union boss sitting opposite can cost the company millions. A simple donation of $50,000, tax free, to a “Workers Welfare Fund” or some other account, in order to prevent potential millions lost, appears to the employer to be prudent corporate governance.

The employer may suspect, but doesn’t question, the nomenclature of this “Welfare” account because if he knows this to be a fraudulent account he necessarily becomes complicit in the fraud. He cannot legally be a part of that, or the deal would fall apart. So he doesn’t ask and doesn’t want to know.

Now the union boss is in complete charge of these tax-free funds. He can wheel and deal and can afford the cost of his and others’ re-election. He is now highly-respected within the union movement and aspires to the next echelon of powerbrokers within the ALP.

If he attains ALP power brokerage status, he has at his disposal ALP safe seats to play with. This is where money, nepotism and corruption really come to the fore. This is why we have ALP Members of Parliament who have difficulty tying their own shoelaces.

And this fierce competition is why various factions, all jostling for power, are prevalent within the Labor Party: The Left, the Socialist Left, the Centre Unity, Center Left, Labor Forum, Labor Unity, NSW Right, the Old Guard and more. Deals are done between factions. Julia Gillard was moved from the Socialist Left to align with the NSW right and the AWU faction in order to attain the Prime Minister ship.

Without the AWU's 'Big Bill' Ludwig's approval, Gillard would not be Prime Minister. She wildly sang his praises at the latest ALP Conference.

Kevin Rudd belongs to no faction and met his predictable death as a result. But in the past 20 years all this has become more sophisticated. Law degrees are now the go.

Law degrees are not that hard to attain...you can have an IQ of 10 and get one on-line. But once attained you can walk into a job in corrupt Left wing law firms like Maurice Blackburn and Slater &Gordon. There are others but these two are the biggest and are nurseries for future ALP Members of Parliament.

The irony of these despicable firms is that they become obscenely wealthy on the backs of the disadvantaged.

Their “no win no fee” advertising slogan is misleading.
If they lose, the poor litigant is up for the costs of the respondent... and that can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars lost to the already bereft litigant.

If they win, these foul law firms have been known to take up to 90% of the litigant’s settlement. Slater & Gordon’s subsidiary law firm Keddies’ directors have been recently convicted of gross overcharging involving millions. Blatant theft is a better description.

Julia Gillard, Nicola Roxon, Bill Shorten and many others in the ALP are graduates of these infamous law firms. Champions of the worker? I think not.

Now we can understand why there is such vicious competitiveness within union structures. Demarcation disputes between unions alone have cost thousands of jobs and billions in losses to employers, yet employers and union members have little interest in what union covers what employee.

We are now faced with union thugs like the AWU's illiterate Paul (Piggy) Howes having control of tens of billions in Aussies’ superannuation funds.

How do I know this?
I was an Organiser (a collector of union dues) in the Communist Australian Railways Union in the early 60s.
Secretary, Comrade J.J. Brown, travelled regularly to the Kremlin on study tours. Now Muscovites regularly travel here to learn the ropes.

Wealth and filthy power is not the unique domain of the corporate world.

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Reply #302 - Aug 28th, 2012 at 11:27pm
 

These Labor types, its all about trying to rise above your station.
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Julia Gillard - twice selected, never elected.

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Reply #303 - Aug 28th, 2012 at 11:33pm
 
progressiveslol wrote on Aug 28th, 2012 at 11:06pm:
[b]HOW UNIONS WORK:
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Stephen Conroy suggested all unionists are involved with “slush funds”. Julia Gillard agrees, and she should know.
They are both correct.

Slush funds are used for election of unionists to official union positions. Such elections are expensive, intimidating and often involve violence and bribery. The stakes are high and internal power plays are the main game. Lucrative rewards at the top fairly equate to the viciousness of the contest.

The AWU is Australia’s biggest and most corrupt union. Myriad other unions, including the BLF and the HSU (East Branch)mimic the corrupt practices. How can they all get away with it? Simply because they can.

The union turmoil in Melbourne today is emblematic of the wider modus operandi of union bosses.

Union bosses are militant by nature because they need to be.
Personal fraudulent riches abound for the successful union boss. That’s why these union offices are so viciously fought for.

The Union boss needs to shove the employer around a bit... soften him up, displaying his ability to cost the employer a small fortune.

He needs to work union members into a frenzy so they will support the “social justice” of a crippling strike. Only then, after he has proved his ability to marshal his forces, can he threaten the now fearful employer with further action. The employer now understands the successful union boss’s power.

The employer, whose ultimate responsibility is to his shareholders, now knows this union boss sitting opposite can cost the company millions. A simple donation of $50,000, tax free, to a “Workers Welfare Fund” or some other account, in order to prevent potential millions lost, appears to the employer to be prudent corporate governance.

The employer may suspect, but doesn’t question, the nomenclature of this “Welfare” account because if he knows this to be a fraudulent account he necessarily becomes complicit in the fraud. He cannot legally be a part of that, or the deal would fall apart. So he doesn’t ask and doesn’t want to know.

Now the union boss is in complete charge of these tax-free funds. He can wheel and deal and can afford the cost of his and others’ re-election. He is now highly-respected within the union movement and aspires to the next echelon of powerbrokers within the ALP.

If he attains ALP power brokerage status, he has at his disposal ALP safe seats to play with. This is where money, nepotism and corruption really come to the fore. This is why we have ALP Members of Parliament who have difficulty tying their own shoelaces.

And this fierce competition is why various factions, all jostling for power, are prevalent within the Labor Party: The Left, the Socialist Left, the Centre Unity, Center Left, Labor Forum, Labor Unity, NSW Right, the Old Guard and more. Deals are done between factions. Julia Gillard was moved from the Socialist Left to align with the NSW right and the AWU faction in order to attain the Prime Minister ship.

Without the AWU's 'Big Bill' Ludwig's approval, Gillard would not be Prime Minister. She wildly sang his praises at the latest ALP Conference.

Kevin Rudd belongs to no faction and met his predictable death as a result. But in the past 20 years all this has become more sophisticated. Law degrees are now the go.

Law degrees are not that hard to attain...you can have an IQ of 10 and get one on-line. But once attained you can walk into a job in corrupt Left wing law firms like Maurice Blackburn and Slater &Gordon. There are others but these two are the biggest and are nurseries for future ALP Members of Parliament.

The irony of these despicable firms is that they become obscenely wealthy on the backs of the disadvantaged.

Their “no win no fee” advertising slogan is misleading.
If they lose, the poor litigant is up for the costs of the respondent... and that can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars lost to the already bereft litigant.

If they win, these foul law firms have been known to take up to 90% of the litigant’s settlement. Slater & Gordon’s subsidiary law firm Keddies’ directors have been recently convicted of gross overcharging involving millions. Blatant theft is a better description.

Julia Gillard, Nicola Roxon, Bill Shorten and many others in the ALP are graduates of these infamous law firms. Champions of the worker? I think not.

Now we can understand why there is such vicious competitiveness within union structures. Demarcation disputes between unions alone have cost thousands of jobs and billions in losses to employers, yet employers and union members have little interest in what union covers what employee.

We are now faced with union thugs like the AWU's illiterate Paul (Piggy) Howes having control of tens of billions in Aussies’ superannuation funds.

How do I know this?
I was an Organiser (a collector of union dues) in the Communist Australian Railways Union in the early 60s.
Secretary, Comrade J.J. Brown, travelled regularly to the Kremlin on study tours. Now Muscovites regularly travel here to learn the ropes.

Wealth and filthy power is not the unique domain of the corporate world.

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

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Private school educated lawyers work
hovering around like vultures wherever there is money and working subversively to undermine economic rights and overthrow the constitution of Australia... Grin Grin
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Reply #304 - Aug 28th, 2012 at 11:38pm
 
Shane B wrote on Aug 28th, 2012 at 11:27pm:
These Labor types, its all about trying to rise above your station.

Tell me where you think unequal stations exist in the Australian constitution...I think this is the problem with many social darwinist ideological types...you sound exactly like Gillard... Smiley Smiley
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Reply #305 - Aug 29th, 2012 at 8:40am
 
NUTJOB!
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Reply #306 - Aug 29th, 2012 at 8:17pm
 
RUDD LEAKS ON GILLARD


It appears he is determined to continue to destabilise Gillard. Yesterday he claimed the next election was winnable. Every man and his dog knows Gillard cannot win the next election so, what he was really saying is: "If I am reinstated, the next election is winnable."

The Prime Minister’s recent farcical Press conference, without notice, was a deliberate attempt to avoid any serious interrogation over her past criminality. Her minders are convinced it was the master stroke that buried the story.

They are very wrong! And I detected a wry smile on Kevin's face.

Gillard knew exactly what she was doing in the 90s. She knew she was aiding and abetting a serial criminal, Bruce Wilson, to continue to commit massive fraud on ordinary working-class people over years.

Kev's worst crime is a parking ticket.

Gillard's passion for Wilson superseded any idealistic passion she once held for the working-class.

After studying in depth the facts of the scandal (and there is more evidence to come) it would take the love of a mother to deny Gillard’s criminal intent.

Guffaws echoed around Australia at her claim of “young and naive”. Her admitted actions alone prove complicity in the crimes. Rob McClelland knows this, Blewitt knows this and Kevin Rudd knows this. Actually more than half the Government and all of the AWU knows this.

Allow a “misogynistic, sexist nutjob” to place the evidence to date on the table. No more questions Gillard simply refuses to answer, just allegations she will find difficult to deny.

1. Gillard frantically tried to kill the story with unprecedented threats to the media to expose phone-hacking.
[Why go to that extent if she maintains she is innocent?]

2. People in the media lost their jobs for attempting to expose the scandal.
[Those people have not been reinstated, their careers are shattered.]

3. The AWU’s Ian Cambridge called for a Royal Commission into the scandal. He was silenced with a promotion to Commissioner of FWA.
[Cambridge now says he stands by his damning affidavit but is unable to comment.]

4. Complicit in the crime, lawyer Bernard Murphy, was “paid off” from Slater & Gordon.
[He has subsequently been appointed by Gillard to the bench of the Federal Court.]

5. Gillard was sacked, at roughly the same time as Murphy, from Slater & Gordon.
[She maintains she left of her own accord. That is a lie.]

6. Bob Kernohan, ex AWU boss, exposed the Gillard/Wilson scandal in affidavit form. He was told to back off. He didn’t and was bashed senseless by four thugs, had bullets posted to him and is still receiving death threats over the phone.
[Bob Kernohan remains in hiding and under treatment for stress related disorders. He will still not resile from his claims.]

7. Those privy to Gillard’s complicity have been either sacked, threatened, promoted or bashed.
[Rob McClelland, who co-authored the explosive Cambridge affidavit, was banished by Gillard to the back bench.]

8. As soon as the scam was discovered, Slater & Gordon called Gillard in to conduct an internal inquiry. She was asked to explain, on tape. Her friends in the firm’s explanation of what is on that tape differ vastly from Attorney Styant-Browne’s actual transcript in his possession.
[Slater & Gordon now demands Nick Styant-Browne disclose nothing further and immediately return the evidence in his possession.]

9. Peter Gordon, who claims to have sacked Gillard, said at the time they were “extremely unhappy” with Ms Gillard and were “considering her termination”. Slater & Gordon’s current Manager, Andrew Grech, said Ms Gillard had "co-operated fully with the internal review and denied any wrongdoing" and the review had "found nothing which contradicted the information provided by Ms Gillard at the time".
[One of those two people is lying.]

10. Styant-Browne conflicted with S & G Manager, Grech: “The firm's statement issued on Monday about the inquiry in 1995, a subsequent leave of absence and her resignation in 1996 was stunningly incomplete". He said, "How does Slater & Gordon reconcile its own statement with this account?" He said, “I did not contemplate the extent to which it (Slater & Gordon’s statement) would seek to protect the prime minister."
Peter Gordon has since backtracked saying he finds nothing inconsistent.

[It’s a pity Slater & Gordon weren’t aware of Styant-Browne’s evidence before they made outrageously false statements protective of Gillard.]

11. Gillard intentionally hid her actions from Slater & Gordon by not opening a file. If she had opened a file, the illegality would certainly have been discovered.
[Also, if she had charged for her “advice”, as would be normal, it would also have been discovered.]

12. Gillard vigorously defended Craig Thomson's rorting of the HSU. She has not commented on Williamson's imminent detection of defrauding $20 million from the same union.
[Gillard, along with Shorten, blithely claims these are isolated incidents and says, "Not one dollar must be illegally taken from union funds". I nearly choked on my Weet Bix when she sid that.]

13. In Boulder WA with Wilson, and as a representative of Slater & Gordon, Gillard personally advised union members to shift their $1million in an account called, "The Goldfields Fatal Accident and Death Fund" to a dodgy Perth account of Wilson’s.
[The money gradually disappeared over three years in cash and the purchase of holiday units.]

14. The Kerr Street house, that Gillard went to buy with Wilson, was purchased in Blewitt’s name with a cheque originally paid to Slater & Gordon's Trust Account. The cheque was from the secret illegal account that Gillard admits she assisted to set up via documentation and “advice”.
[According to numerous reports, Gillard lived in the Kerr Street house with Wilson while her own house was being renovated. This appears to be correct as Gillard had not monitored her renovations. She complained bitterly of the work when she finally saw it.]

15. Gillard drew up a ‘power of attorney’ for Wilson to act for Blewitt, who was then in Perth. Slater & Gordon supplied a $150,000 mortgage on the house.
[Blewitt says he was not informed of any mortgage taken out on "his" house.]

16. While Gillard was living in the Kerr Street house with Wilson, she paid for instalments on her renovations with at least two bank cheques that we know of. Bank cheques are a very unusual way to pay a tradesman, unless you wish to disguise the source of the funds. Gillard says she has receipts for the work done.
[Receipts for bank cheques? What point is that? Gillard claimed she had paid for the renovations herself. She now claims she can’t be certain she paid for the renovations herself.]

17. A payment was also made from this account of $17,000, in two tranches, to Town Mode Fashion house.
[The Greek renovators, Kew Renovations, also owned Town Mode.]

18. The people who primarily arranged Kevin Rudd’s assassination and shoe-horned Gillard into the Prime Ministership, are unionists, Paul (Piggy) Howes, Bill Shorten and “Big Bill” Ludwig. All held, or still hold, top positions in the AWU. All refuse to supply files that could show Gillard’s complicity or otherwise in the scandal. They refuse to chase the stolen funds.
[Slater & Gordon also refuse to supply files, claiming privilege.]


19. Gillard has demonised all who attempt to expose this scandal. It would be a simple matter for Gillard to deny these facts in one interview. She resolutely refuses.
[A refusal is understandable as her responses to date are side-steps and thoroughly inexplicable.]

20. If Gillard maintains she has "done nothing wrong" why does she continue to do everything in her power to have the story spiked?
[There is only one answer to that: She HAS done plenty wrong and for her to survive it needs to be buried.]

The information we receive is not, as Gillard maintains, coming from the Coalition. We have never spoken to, or received any information from, that source. The information is coming from past and current employees and clients of Slater & Gordon, ex-AWU officials, ALP backbenchers, second hand material originally from Kevin Rudd’s office and a legal source in Sydney.

Now, even a mere “misogynistic, sexist nutjob” like me seems to think there is already sufficient evidence to show this Prime Minister has no business being there.

Circumstantial you say? Well, I’m sorry we don’t have colour photographs of the crime.

But people have been convicted of first degree murder on circumstantial evidence alone... and I don't mean the murder of that pesky Kevin Rudd.


http://pickeringpost.com/article/rudd-leaks-on-gillard/420
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Reply #307 - Aug 29th, 2012 at 8:22pm
 
Is this thread the internet equivalent of the scary, weird person shouting randomly on street corners?
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Reply #308 - Aug 29th, 2012 at 8:26pm
 
rabbitoh07 wrote on Aug 29th, 2012 at 8:22pm:
Is this thread the internet equivalent of the scary, weird person shouting randomly on street corners?

I dont think you would be seen like that. You dont have caps on. Besides, you really didnt put much information up.
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Reply #309 - Aug 29th, 2012 at 8:35pm
 
NUTJOB!
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Gist wrote on Aug 29th, 2012 at 8:35pm:
NUTJOB!

Well I wouldn't have called him that. Bit mean.
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Reply #313 - Aug 29th, 2012 at 8:46pm
 
Wow, people must be hard of reading around here. Yes, he called you a NUTJOB. Although, he could have been referring to Gillard. This thread being about gillard.

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