How about you contest the facts they put up rather than attack them?

Dsmithy70 wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2014 at 12:23pm:


here is a challenge (which I know you wont accept).  go to IA and then come back to me with your assessment of the site.

I await your refusal to do so.

John Smith wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2014 at 12:17pm:



Because facts can't be contended

And when you cant contend you obfuscate by

1) information overload, flood discussion with unimportant information thereby burying the important stuff

2) attacking the messenger thereby ignoring the message.

Longy loves number 2, quick & easy

John Smith wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2014 at 12:17pm:



Because facts can't be contended

And when you cant contend you obfuscate by

1) information overload, flood discussion with unimportant information thereby burying the important stuff

2) attacking the messenger thereby ignoring the message.

Longy loves number 2, quick & easy

HEALTH Services Union whistleblower Kathy Jackson claims she could only guess at what payments of up to $50,000 from a $250,000 union fund were used for following the loss of the exercise book detailing the account. 
 
She yesterday struggled to answer questions before the trades union royal commission about numerous transactions from the account, blaming the disappearance of the book after her office was ransacked while she was receiving psychiatric treatment

Yesterday she confirmed she controlled a slush fund, which she called a “fighting fund”, financed from more than $250,000 of unpaid members’ entitlements money paid to the union by the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Ms Jackson said she was given carte blanche to use the money for union purposes such as election funding or Christmas parties, and $4000 a year for personal use.

But as Mr Stoljar went through the bank records for the National Health Development Account, into which the entitlement money was paid, Ms Jackson struggled to recall what the payments were for.

When Mr Stoljar asked what withdrawals of $5000, $8000 and even $50,000 were used for Ms Jackson repeatedly replied “No” or “They were used for either political or industrial purposes”.

She said she kept a tally of all payments from the ­account in an exercise book. “If I had my exercise book every transaction would have been recorded,” she said.

WHISTLEBLOWER Kathy Jackson continued to make large withdrawals from a union slush fund account that she controlled until as recently as last August — more than three years after she ceased to be an elected official of the Health Services Union branch concerned. 
 
Commonwealth Bank records show Ms Jackson continued to withdraw large sums of cash and buy goods using money transferred to a $284,500 slush fund she operated alone as an “off-line” account, even after her HSU No 3 branch in Victoria was ­dissolved in 2010 and she went to a national position within the union.

At the centre of attention is Ms Jackson’s CBA account, which she says she established with the backing of her No 3 branch committee of management for spending as she saw fit, after a $250,000 “windfall” settlement from a Melbourne cancer hospital after a dispute over backpay.

Ms Jackson says she had pre-authorisation to spend the money for union political purposes, and was permitted to spend $4000 a year on personal items.

Asked this week about her spending after 2010, when she was no longer HSU No 3 branch secretary, and whether she might no longer have had exclusive authority to spend the money, Ms Jackson told The Weekend ­Australian: “So what?”

Asked further how she could spend money from the fund when she was no longer an elected official of the branch, Ms Jackson said: “Because that’s how it worked.”

Dnarever wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2014 at 2:47pm:


Exactly.

longweekend58 wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2014 at 2:28pm:



I have ask you before longy. Who on the IA site that contribute article to IA don't you agree with?

Last time I ask you you ran and hid under a rock

FYI here is the list of contributors to Independent Australia web site.

So tell us who you don't like and why you don't like them. Will you be man enough this time?