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Pete McCluskey.
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I wish it was so! Then I could just switch off the T.V.
...and it's business as usual.
Pete McCluskey.
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The slow hand of Justice is moving closer.
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:shocked:
Larry Pickering
2 hrs · Edited ·
MEDIA SCRAMBLE TO CATCH UP ON JULIA
Coverage is scant and opinion pieces scarce as media’s Left belatedly attempts to catch up on a Gillard story it swore didn’t exist. Now the intrepid reporters will need to do some homework.
SKY’s Paul Murray is back-flipping better than Comanec. Peter van (well I believe you Prime Minister) Onselen doesn’t know what to say. Fairfax is befogged by the budget and has all but ignored the story, sooling its workplace editor on to it.
Channel 7 is still in denial and the ABC’s Tony Jones is too busy promoting this week’s token homosexual to tell Australia it has no debt problem.
News Corp’s Hedley Thomas is the only mainstream journo abreast of the story.
As was suggested here would happen, Victoria’s Major Fraud Squad is working in tandem with the Royal Commission and it now appears certain that Julia Gillard will be called.
But she had better look up the rules of the Commission before attending because they allow for a minefield of the same “gotcha” traps that disposed of Barry O’Farrell and others in the ICAC.
When this Royal Commission is over, Vicpol, which already has much of the evidence (with more to come in a few weeks from overruled Slater & Gordon’s suppressed files) will be waiting on the steps to lay charges.
This is one Royal Commission from which there is no escape.
Bruce Wilson’s evidence, which is scheduled to begin at 2pm today, will show why his anger is white hot and why his counsel required more time to prepare statements that will be shot down in flames with evidence that neither is yet aware of.
You can watch it here: Pages - Home
Julia Gillard will suffer the same conditions when she is called and she had better re-scan Pickering Post’s “The Gillard Files” if she wants to be aware of what her examination will involve.
Yes, I went after her, but not because she’s a woman and not because she is a communist crook. I quite liked her and, despite the defamatory lashings she gives her detractors, I’m neither a misogynist nor a nutjob nor a bankrupt.
What was wrong was that she had no right to be Prime Minister of my country with her background. It should not have happened and must never happen again. Corrupt unionists should never be allowed to select a Prime Minister in pursuit of their own ends.
They believed they were untouchable, until it all started to unravel.
Their solution to this unravelling was to gag the Press... and they almost did. Two journalists were sacked when they tried to expose the story, the ABC and Fairfax ran for cover under a prior agreement Gillard made with seniors of the Press Gallery that the story would never see the light of day.
By the way, where is Grattan, Bongiorno and Oakes?
“Who are you going to believe”, yelled Julia, “a confessed fraudster like Ralph Blewitt or your Prime Minister?”
Right now the odds have shortened on the man who swears on oath and risks jail while maxing his credit card out to get here.
The police say they don’t have the money to pay for Ralph, but they’ve taken his evidence... and his passport.
Ralph actually cares, like all decent Aussies should, but he has put his life, his passport and his meagre resources on the line as few would be prepared to do.
Bob Kernohan told me this morning, “The precedent has been set, Julia as a frequent flyer should be considered a flight risk. She should also have her passport impounded.
Larry Pickering
2 hrs · Edited ·
MEDIA SCRAMBLE TO CATCH UP ON JULIA
Coverage is scant and opinion pieces scarce as media’s Left belatedly attempts to catch up on a Gillard story it swore didn’t exist. Now the intrepid reporters will need to do some homework.
SKY’s Paul Murray is back-flipping better than Comanec. Peter van (well I believe you Prime Minister) Onselen doesn’t know what to say. Fairfax is befogged by the budget and has all but ignored the story, sooling its workplace editor on to it.
Channel 7 is still in denial and the ABC’s Tony Jones is too busy promoting this week’s token homosexual to tell Australia it has no debt problem.
News Corp’s Hedley Thomas is the only mainstream journo abreast of the story.
As was suggested here would happen, Victoria’s Major Fraud Squad is working in tandem with the Royal Commission and it now appears certain that Julia Gillard will be called.
But she had better look up the rules of the Commission before attending because they allow for a minefield of the same “gotcha” traps that disposed of Barry O’Farrell and others in the ICAC.
When this Royal Commission is over, Vicpol, which already has much of the evidence (with more to come in a few weeks from overruled Slater & Gordon’s suppressed files) will be waiting on the steps to lay charges.
This is one Royal Commission from which there is no escape.
Bruce Wilson’s evidence, which is scheduled to begin at 2pm today, will show why his anger is white hot and why his counsel required more time to prepare statements that will be shot down in flames with evidence that neither is yet aware of.
You can watch it here: Pages - Home
Julia Gillard will suffer the same conditions when she is called and she had better re-scan Pickering Post’s “The Gillard Files” if she wants to be aware of what her examination will involve.
Yes, I went after her, but not because she’s a woman and not because she is a communist crook. I quite liked her and, despite the defamatory lashings she gives her detractors, I’m neither a misogynist nor a nutjob nor a bankrupt.
What was wrong was that she had no right to be Prime Minister of my country with her background. It should not have happened and must never happen again. Corrupt unionists should never be allowed to select a Prime Minister in pursuit of their own ends.
They believed they were untouchable, until it all started to unravel.
Their solution to this unravelling was to gag the Press... and they almost did. Two journalists were sacked when they tried to expose the story, the ABC and Fairfax ran for cover under a prior agreement Gillard made with seniors of the Press Gallery that the story would never see the light of day.
By the way, where is Grattan, Bongiorno and Oakes?
“Who are you going to believe”, yelled Julia, “a confessed fraudster like Ralph Blewitt or your Prime Minister?”
Right now the odds have shortened on the man who swears on oath and risks jail while maxing his credit card out to get here.
The police say they don’t have the money to pay for Ralph, but they’ve taken his evidence... and his passport.
Ralph actually cares, like all decent Aussies should, but he has put his life, his passport and his meagre resources on the line as few would be prepared to do.
Bob Kernohan told me this morning, “The precedent has been set, Julia as a frequent flyer should be considered a flight risk. She should also have her passport impounded.
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
Just watching the Royal Commission, finally Julia Gillard has been mentioned as receiving
corrupt union money.
Much more to follow.
corrupt union money.
Much more to follow.
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
So Hillary Clinton is pulling on the tired old sexism, misogyny trick which didn't do much good for Julia. In her book Hard Choices, Hillary says Julia Gillard faced outrageous sexism. The book is being used by Hillary as a lever for her tilt at the US Presidency.
The problem for Hillary is she's just shown herself unfit to be President on a couple of scores.
Hillary wrote that ‘‘women in public life still face an unfair double standard".
"Even leaders like former prime minister Julia Gillard of Australia have faced outrageous sexism which shouldn’t be tolerated in any country," Mrs Clinton wrote.
Mrs Clinton told Ms Gillard to defend herself against allegations from decades past which were being used drag her name through the mud.
When the pair met, Ms Gillard was facing questions over her role in the Australian Workers Union affair dating back to her time as a lawyer with Slater and Gordon in the 1990s.
Mrs Clinton told Ms Gillard: ‘‘You've got to stand up to it and be clear about it and name it for what it is because the temptation is to say, 'Look this is so absurd, it'll die a death’, whereas these things unfortunately don't die a death.’’
Unfortunately for Hillary the events of nearly 20 years are not about 'outrageous sexism'. They're about corrupt (and possibly criminal) conduct.
That corrupt conduct is now under investigation by a Royal Commission, where Julia Gillard secretly established, possibly illegally, an incorporated association for her then union official boyfriend which was used to defraud monies by false invoices for work that was never performed.
Julia Gillard, never opened an office file as required, but in fact kept a secret file (since gone missing). When caught out, she told her law firm partners the association was a 'slush fund'. It had just two members, her boyfriend Bruce Wilson and his underling bagman, Ralph Blewitt. An incorporated association is required by law to have at least five members.
It's illegal to set up an association to be used as a 'slush fund', and a lawyer knows that, and doing so is a breach of two legislated acts.
The WA legislation (where the association was incorporated) explicitly prohibits an association's incorporation if it aims to financially benefit the members and sets out penalties for lodging false or misleading information.
Terry O'Connor QC (former WA anti-corruption and crimes commissioner) believes Julia Gillard's role in drafting rules for the Australian Workers Union Workplace Reform Association, which her boyfriend Bruce Wilson later used for fraudulent purposes, also exposes her to charges under WA's Criminal Code and the Associations Incorporation Act.
Mr O'Connor has based his opinion on Ms Gillard's 1995 explanation to Slater & Gordon, where she then worked, in which she said she had provided advice "that it was better to have an incorporated association, a legal entity" to manage a re-election or "slush" fund for members.
Further, Gillard told the WA Corp. Affairs Commission the proposed association had nothing to do with the union (AWU), even though she applied on behalf of the AWU officials Wilson and Blewitt and the AWU was Slater & Gordon's client, and she applied the second time on S&G letter head, as a partner. Bad enough misleading the Commission (a criminal offence), but worse as a partner of a law firm, clearly aware of the consequences and penalties.
One of the witnesses testifying at the Royal Commission this week, Athol James, was a woodworker who worked on Julia Gillard's Abbotsford house renos. James claims he saw Wilson give cash to Gillard who then paid workers for renos to her house.
Another builder, Konstantinos Spyridis also worked on Julia Gillard's house and says he was paid for renos on Gillard's house by Gillard.
Gillard told her law firm partners she 'could not categorically rule out' that monies from the 'slush fund' didn't pay for her house renos. Yet, in 2012 at her infamous hour-long press conference, when asked who paid for her house renos, Gillard said she paid for them (according to woodworker Athol James, she did pay the workers - with the cash Wilson gave her).
Wilson's bagman, Ralph Blewitt, has already testified at the Royal Commission that he paid $7,000 in cash at Wilson's instructions to builders at Julia's House.
Blewitt claims Gillard was at the front of the house at the time and ushered Blewitt out the back to see Wilson when he arrived with the money to pay the builders.
The noose is tightening each day as more testimonial and documented evidence is tabled at the Royal Commission.
Hillary has done herself a great disservice brushing off as 'outrageous sexism' the real concerns of criminal behaviour of a leader of another country - simply on the basis that leader is a woman.
If it were a man, not doubt it wouldn't be 'sexism'.
And there's the hypocrisy.
Women who seek the ulitmate status of power demand equality, but when they achieve that equality, turn to demand 'special treatment' on the basis of being a female. It's demeaning to them, and demeaning to other women.
That Hillary has grasped at this 'sexism' straw shows she intends to play it for all its worth should she attain the US Presidency - defending her own ineptness and poor judgement with shrill cries of 'misogynist sexists!'
Never mind the facts.
Hell, it worked for Julia...didn't it?
The Pickering Post.
The problem for Hillary is she's just shown herself unfit to be President on a couple of scores.
Hillary wrote that ‘‘women in public life still face an unfair double standard".
"Even leaders like former prime minister Julia Gillard of Australia have faced outrageous sexism which shouldn’t be tolerated in any country," Mrs Clinton wrote.
Mrs Clinton told Ms Gillard to defend herself against allegations from decades past which were being used drag her name through the mud.
When the pair met, Ms Gillard was facing questions over her role in the Australian Workers Union affair dating back to her time as a lawyer with Slater and Gordon in the 1990s.
Mrs Clinton told Ms Gillard: ‘‘You've got to stand up to it and be clear about it and name it for what it is because the temptation is to say, 'Look this is so absurd, it'll die a death’, whereas these things unfortunately don't die a death.’’
Unfortunately for Hillary the events of nearly 20 years are not about 'outrageous sexism'. They're about corrupt (and possibly criminal) conduct.
That corrupt conduct is now under investigation by a Royal Commission, where Julia Gillard secretly established, possibly illegally, an incorporated association for her then union official boyfriend which was used to defraud monies by false invoices for work that was never performed.
Julia Gillard, never opened an office file as required, but in fact kept a secret file (since gone missing). When caught out, she told her law firm partners the association was a 'slush fund'. It had just two members, her boyfriend Bruce Wilson and his underling bagman, Ralph Blewitt. An incorporated association is required by law to have at least five members.
It's illegal to set up an association to be used as a 'slush fund', and a lawyer knows that, and doing so is a breach of two legislated acts.
The WA legislation (where the association was incorporated) explicitly prohibits an association's incorporation if it aims to financially benefit the members and sets out penalties for lodging false or misleading information.
Terry O'Connor QC (former WA anti-corruption and crimes commissioner) believes Julia Gillard's role in drafting rules for the Australian Workers Union Workplace Reform Association, which her boyfriend Bruce Wilson later used for fraudulent purposes, also exposes her to charges under WA's Criminal Code and the Associations Incorporation Act.
Mr O'Connor has based his opinion on Ms Gillard's 1995 explanation to Slater & Gordon, where she then worked, in which she said she had provided advice "that it was better to have an incorporated association, a legal entity" to manage a re-election or "slush" fund for members.
Further, Gillard told the WA Corp. Affairs Commission the proposed association had nothing to do with the union (AWU), even though she applied on behalf of the AWU officials Wilson and Blewitt and the AWU was Slater & Gordon's client, and she applied the second time on S&G letter head, as a partner. Bad enough misleading the Commission (a criminal offence), but worse as a partner of a law firm, clearly aware of the consequences and penalties.
One of the witnesses testifying at the Royal Commission this week, Athol James, was a woodworker who worked on Julia Gillard's Abbotsford house renos. James claims he saw Wilson give cash to Gillard who then paid workers for renos to her house.
Another builder, Konstantinos Spyridis also worked on Julia Gillard's house and says he was paid for renos on Gillard's house by Gillard.
Gillard told her law firm partners she 'could not categorically rule out' that monies from the 'slush fund' didn't pay for her house renos. Yet, in 2012 at her infamous hour-long press conference, when asked who paid for her house renos, Gillard said she paid for them (according to woodworker Athol James, she did pay the workers - with the cash Wilson gave her).
Wilson's bagman, Ralph Blewitt, has already testified at the Royal Commission that he paid $7,000 in cash at Wilson's instructions to builders at Julia's House.
Blewitt claims Gillard was at the front of the house at the time and ushered Blewitt out the back to see Wilson when he arrived with the money to pay the builders.
The noose is tightening each day as more testimonial and documented evidence is tabled at the Royal Commission.
Hillary has done herself a great disservice brushing off as 'outrageous sexism' the real concerns of criminal behaviour of a leader of another country - simply on the basis that leader is a woman.
If it were a man, not doubt it wouldn't be 'sexism'.
And there's the hypocrisy.
Women who seek the ulitmate status of power demand equality, but when they achieve that equality, turn to demand 'special treatment' on the basis of being a female. It's demeaning to them, and demeaning to other women.
That Hillary has grasped at this 'sexism' straw shows she intends to play it for all its worth should she attain the US Presidency - defending her own ineptness and poor judgement with shrill cries of 'misogynist sexists!'
Never mind the facts.
Hell, it worked for Julia...didn't it?
The Pickering Post.
There seems to be more than one crooked goings-on in both 'Billary's' and Julia's individual pasts, innit. No wonder Hillary came to Julia's aid! She's 'been there'! ('Birds of a feather if you ask me...and you didn't.)
Look up "Whitewater", "Chinagate", "Travelgate" and "Filegate"...for starters.
You can betchur boots ole 'Billary' will instantly hoist the "sexism", "bullying" and "victim" pennants above her campaign's ramparts should those topics again be brought up at some time during her 2016 presidential run...and my guess is the 'lefties' in the "lamestream media" (Goldberg) we have over here will act as her 'cavalry' and ride to her defense.
Look up "Whitewater", "Chinagate", "Travelgate" and "Filegate"...for starters.
You can betchur boots ole 'Billary' will instantly hoist the "sexism", "bullying" and "victim" pennants above her campaign's ramparts should those topics again be brought up at some time during her 2016 presidential run...and my guess is the 'lefties' in the "lamestream media" (Goldberg) we have over here will act as her 'cavalry' and ride to her defense.
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
Our left wing press down here is truly remarkable. An ex Prime Minister similar to your POTUS has been named in a Royal Commission as having received corrupt union funds and also when practising as a lawyer helping a union boss fraudulently set up a slush fund to launder money and it goes practically unnoticed by the popular press. A 30 second sound grab on 7 news nothing on channel2 and a minor mention in the Courier mail.
Unbelievable!!!:stunned::stunned::cussing:
Unbelievable!!!:stunned::stunned::cussing:
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
The Royal commission grinds on exposing more and more union corruption and fraud.
Unions setting up slush funds to rob their members, but still nothing is mentioned in the press.
And I thought socialists were for "the working class".
Unions setting up slush funds to rob their members, but still nothing is mentioned in the press.
And I thought socialists were for "the working class".
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
The CFMEU is finally in the spotlight as the Royal Commission tears apart its countless layers of corruption, thuggery, blackmail, bribes, death threats and blackballing.
The CFMEU is actually a reconstruction of the infamous Builders Labourers Federation (BLF).
Four of Julia Gillard’s many male and female partners were two dickheads and two ruthless union thugs. The two dickheads were Craig Emerson and Tim Mathieson, the two union thugs were Michael O’Connor and Bruce Wilson of the equally infamous AWU.
Michael O’Connor is the CFMEU National Secretary and brother of shadow frontbencher Brendan O’Conner. His dalliance with Gillard began with the Australian Union of Students and they remain close friends today. He, along with Gillard, is an unabashed Communist and close friend of Trotskyist, Paul Howes.
In her maiden speech to Parliament, Gillard said Michael O'Connor was still her closest confidant: "I would not have reached this place without his support", she said.
Chief CFMEU boss brawler, John Setka, is the master of standover tactics. Melbourne developer Leigh Chiavaroli told the Commission that Setka demanded he employ his friend Anton Sucic and brother-in-law Ivan Dadic as “safety officers”, or he would have Chiavaroli’s $800 million development site shut down.
Chiavaroli had agreed but said both men were "hardly ever" on the site and overstated the hours they were there, a common AWU tactic that was used by Gillard’s other partner, Bruce Wilson on the Dawesville and other projects in WA.
Leigh’s father, Peter Chiavaroli, said he was told by CFMEU industrial consultant, Ken Hardy he should pay Melbourne gangland identity Mick Gatto $50,000 each time he wanted a problem “fixed” with the union.
In the midst of Gillard’s “misogyny” hysteria her friend Michael O’Connor had arranged for the comedy entertainment at a national CFMEU conference. One of the jokes told by the entertainer was that, “Tony Abbott's chief of staff, Peta Credlin does a good Head job... Abbott calls her the Vacuum Cleaner ‘cos she cleans up his messes”.
It was reportedly met with howls of laughter from the Labor front bench who were present.
At the same time, Gillard was bravely defending Peter Slipper who had just texted his gay staffer, James Ashby some delightful mollusc jokes about women’s vaginas.
It made Julia’s “misogyny” wailing about as genuine as a Hong Kong $20 Rolex.
And her choice in union men was anything but naive, she was drawn to the excitement of powerful union thugs who were swimming in fraudulent funds and who could interrupt concrete pours with a single phone call.
She was intoxicated by union power and brutality
Pickering Post.
And still nothing reported in the mainstream media.
The CFMEU is actually a reconstruction of the infamous Builders Labourers Federation (BLF).
Four of Julia Gillard’s many male and female partners were two dickheads and two ruthless union thugs. The two dickheads were Craig Emerson and Tim Mathieson, the two union thugs were Michael O’Connor and Bruce Wilson of the equally infamous AWU.
Michael O’Connor is the CFMEU National Secretary and brother of shadow frontbencher Brendan O’Conner. His dalliance with Gillard began with the Australian Union of Students and they remain close friends today. He, along with Gillard, is an unabashed Communist and close friend of Trotskyist, Paul Howes.
In her maiden speech to Parliament, Gillard said Michael O'Connor was still her closest confidant: "I would not have reached this place without his support", she said.
Chief CFMEU boss brawler, John Setka, is the master of standover tactics. Melbourne developer Leigh Chiavaroli told the Commission that Setka demanded he employ his friend Anton Sucic and brother-in-law Ivan Dadic as “safety officers”, or he would have Chiavaroli’s $800 million development site shut down.
Chiavaroli had agreed but said both men were "hardly ever" on the site and overstated the hours they were there, a common AWU tactic that was used by Gillard’s other partner, Bruce Wilson on the Dawesville and other projects in WA.
Leigh’s father, Peter Chiavaroli, said he was told by CFMEU industrial consultant, Ken Hardy he should pay Melbourne gangland identity Mick Gatto $50,000 each time he wanted a problem “fixed” with the union.
In the midst of Gillard’s “misogyny” hysteria her friend Michael O’Connor had arranged for the comedy entertainment at a national CFMEU conference. One of the jokes told by the entertainer was that, “Tony Abbott's chief of staff, Peta Credlin does a good Head job... Abbott calls her the Vacuum Cleaner ‘cos she cleans up his messes”.
It was reportedly met with howls of laughter from the Labor front bench who were present.
At the same time, Gillard was bravely defending Peter Slipper who had just texted his gay staffer, James Ashby some delightful mollusc jokes about women’s vaginas.
It made Julia’s “misogyny” wailing about as genuine as a Hong Kong $20 Rolex.
And her choice in union men was anything but naive, she was drawn to the excitement of powerful union thugs who were swimming in fraudulent funds and who could interrupt concrete pours with a single phone call.
She was intoxicated by union power and brutality
Pickering Post.
And still nothing reported in the mainstream media.
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
I've watched her in the witness box today, and she was examined for about six hours.
No doubt in my mind that she is corrupt as. But so many evidential things have been destroyed or gone missing and her memory is conveniently flawed that proof beyond reasonable doubt would be almost impossible.
So I agree, she will walk.
Her ex boyfriend Bruce Wilson will probably spend some time at Her Majesties pleasure.
No doubt in my mind that she is corrupt as. But so many evidential things have been destroyed or gone missing and her memory is conveniently flawed that proof beyond reasonable doubt would be almost impossible.
So I agree, she will walk.
Her ex boyfriend Bruce Wilson will probably spend some time at Her Majesties pleasure.
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
This Royal Commission into Union corruption grinds on, recently Bill Shorten who knifed Julia Gilliard to take over leadership of the left wing Labor Party (that is how they spell it)
Appeared. He only remembered "donations" to his election fund two weeks prior to appearing.
Now the left and the greens are desperately trying to get the Commission shut down because of supposed bias by the Commissioner.
Here is Pickering's take on it. Dyson Heydon is the Comissioner.
ONLY ONE OF TWO BAD CHOICES FOR DYSON
... and he will doubtless choose the right one
So he forgot to not do something he had no intention to do even if he had not forgotten to remember something he was not going to do anyway even if he had remembered to not forget he had already forgotten to remember... or in other words, “Bugger, I should have opened that attachment”.
This is a new low for Bill Shorten. He has been missing in action, using others, including the ACTU, to interfere in a judicial process where corrupt union thugs are falling like nine pins and Bill Shorten is as culpable as any of them, if not more so.
He is desperate to stop the Commission disclosing anything more of his AWU criminality and if it does he wants the findings clouded in a perception of bias.
So let’s get a few things straight:
1 Dyson Heydon is a jurist of distinction, a decent man and highly intelligent. He is not a politician.
2 Bill Shorten is a union thug, a piece of excrement and thick as pig shit. He is every bit a politician.
3 Dyson Heydon did not doubt Shorten’s credibility as a witness (although the Libs will read it that way). He said he was "concerned" for his credibility and tried to assist him under pressure from Jeremy Stoljar’s examination because Shorten’s ridiculous self-serving non-replies were clearly doing him damage.
4 Dyson Heydon accepted the invitation to give the Sir Garfield Barwick Address prior to knowing of the decision to extend the Commission hearings until the end of this year.
5 It’s ludicrous to suggest Dyson Heydon would have agreed to address any political Party sanctioned event while sitting on a politically volatile Royal Commission.
6 Subsequent to the Commission rising, any Commissioner can address any bloody function he or she damned well wishes.
7 Fair Work Commissioner and ex-AWU Secretary, Ian Cambridge and the AWU’s Bob Kernohan were the first to call for this Royal Commission, not Abbott.
8 This Labor/union precipitous bastardry is unprecedented and symptomatic of the movement’s complete disregard for the rule of law.
9 There are serious legal side issues also at play here including the illegality of publicly criticising a Royal Commission, the anomaly of a Commissioner sitting in judgment on himself and the fact that a Royal Commission cannot be disbanded once it has commenced.
10 Labor, the Greens and the unions have demanded the Government shut the Commission down... this cannot happen and is not even a remote possibility.
Okay, the ACTU’s written submissions are due to be handed up tomorrow at 10.30 am. This august union monolith who bore Bob Hawke has the option of not going ahead with submissions, but that’s highly unlikely as it would be seen as a capitulation by both the ACTU and Shorten and more grist for the Lib mill.
So Dyson Heydon will have Thursday evening to mull over the ACTU’s submissions prior to a hearing on Friday morning. I suggest there will be no Friday resolution, he will use the weekend to mull over the submissions before handing down his decision next week.
Or he may even decide to defer any judgment to another independent judicial body. Apart from that it will come down to one of only two decisions Dyson Heydon can make... to step down or not to step down.
If the Commissioner steps down it would create a dangerous precedent and render all future Royal Commissions open to crass political interference. I doubt Dyson Heydon would subject any future judicial process to that, let alone Royal Commissions.
The cacophony from the Left demanding Abbott sack him is legally illiterate and flat out contemptuous of process. He cannot and will not be sacked.
The last time a politician visited a Governor General to ask that someone's commission be withdrawn was in 1975.
If he refuses to step down and continues to preside as usual, then dozens of Labor’s corrupt unionists who will face charges will use the Commissioner’s “perceived bias” as a defence.
This is a serious side issue that Heydon will no doubt need to consider albeit that this “perceived bias” is a confected concoction entirely of the Left’s creation.
Labor the ACTU, and now their partners in crime the Greens, have purposefully created a destructive legal quagmire that can have no positive outcome... but that’s what this rabble excels at.
Commissioner Heydon must now decide on the lesser of two odious outcomes. He will decide to dismiss the ACTU’s submissions and refuse to step down out of respect for the law and all future Royal Commissions.
The cost of doing so is that the Commission’s decisions and recommendations will be tainted by a bias perceived only by Labor’s unions, the Greens and the ACTU. If I’m wrong there will be an even higher price to pay.
But either way the bill should be sent directly to Bill Shorten
Appeared. He only remembered "donations" to his election fund two weeks prior to appearing.
Now the left and the greens are desperately trying to get the Commission shut down because of supposed bias by the Commissioner.
Here is Pickering's take on it. Dyson Heydon is the Comissioner.
ONLY ONE OF TWO BAD CHOICES FOR DYSON
... and he will doubtless choose the right one
So he forgot to not do something he had no intention to do even if he had not forgotten to remember something he was not going to do anyway even if he had remembered to not forget he had already forgotten to remember... or in other words, “Bugger, I should have opened that attachment”.
This is a new low for Bill Shorten. He has been missing in action, using others, including the ACTU, to interfere in a judicial process where corrupt union thugs are falling like nine pins and Bill Shorten is as culpable as any of them, if not more so.
He is desperate to stop the Commission disclosing anything more of his AWU criminality and if it does he wants the findings clouded in a perception of bias.
So let’s get a few things straight:
1 Dyson Heydon is a jurist of distinction, a decent man and highly intelligent. He is not a politician.
2 Bill Shorten is a union thug, a piece of excrement and thick as pig shit. He is every bit a politician.
3 Dyson Heydon did not doubt Shorten’s credibility as a witness (although the Libs will read it that way). He said he was "concerned" for his credibility and tried to assist him under pressure from Jeremy Stoljar’s examination because Shorten’s ridiculous self-serving non-replies were clearly doing him damage.
4 Dyson Heydon accepted the invitation to give the Sir Garfield Barwick Address prior to knowing of the decision to extend the Commission hearings until the end of this year.
5 It’s ludicrous to suggest Dyson Heydon would have agreed to address any political Party sanctioned event while sitting on a politically volatile Royal Commission.
6 Subsequent to the Commission rising, any Commissioner can address any bloody function he or she damned well wishes.
7 Fair Work Commissioner and ex-AWU Secretary, Ian Cambridge and the AWU’s Bob Kernohan were the first to call for this Royal Commission, not Abbott.
8 This Labor/union precipitous bastardry is unprecedented and symptomatic of the movement’s complete disregard for the rule of law.
9 There are serious legal side issues also at play here including the illegality of publicly criticising a Royal Commission, the anomaly of a Commissioner sitting in judgment on himself and the fact that a Royal Commission cannot be disbanded once it has commenced.
10 Labor, the Greens and the unions have demanded the Government shut the Commission down... this cannot happen and is not even a remote possibility.
Okay, the ACTU’s written submissions are due to be handed up tomorrow at 10.30 am. This august union monolith who bore Bob Hawke has the option of not going ahead with submissions, but that’s highly unlikely as it would be seen as a capitulation by both the ACTU and Shorten and more grist for the Lib mill.
So Dyson Heydon will have Thursday evening to mull over the ACTU’s submissions prior to a hearing on Friday morning. I suggest there will be no Friday resolution, he will use the weekend to mull over the submissions before handing down his decision next week.
Or he may even decide to defer any judgment to another independent judicial body. Apart from that it will come down to one of only two decisions Dyson Heydon can make... to step down or not to step down.
If the Commissioner steps down it would create a dangerous precedent and render all future Royal Commissions open to crass political interference. I doubt Dyson Heydon would subject any future judicial process to that, let alone Royal Commissions.
The cacophony from the Left demanding Abbott sack him is legally illiterate and flat out contemptuous of process. He cannot and will not be sacked.
The last time a politician visited a Governor General to ask that someone's commission be withdrawn was in 1975.
If he refuses to step down and continues to preside as usual, then dozens of Labor’s corrupt unionists who will face charges will use the Commissioner’s “perceived bias” as a defence.
This is a serious side issue that Heydon will no doubt need to consider albeit that this “perceived bias” is a confected concoction entirely of the Left’s creation.
Labor the ACTU, and now their partners in crime the Greens, have purposefully created a destructive legal quagmire that can have no positive outcome... but that’s what this rabble excels at.
Commissioner Heydon must now decide on the lesser of two odious outcomes. He will decide to dismiss the ACTU’s submissions and refuse to step down out of respect for the law and all future Royal Commissions.
The cost of doing so is that the Commission’s decisions and recommendations will be tainted by a bias perceived only by Labor’s unions, the Greens and the ACTU. If I’m wrong there will be an even higher price to pay.
But either way the bill should be sent directly to Bill Shorten
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Heck, I often forget to remember what I've forgotten to remember NOT to forget. So, what's the problem?
I see no issue here... :smug:
