Time for union inquiry: Costa
ONE-time union leader and former NSW treasurer Michael Costa has declared Australia now needs a public inquiry into union corruption and fraud.
Investigations
Abbott will stay course on AWU
TONY Abbott has declared he will not back off his allegation that Julia Gillard broke the law and will pursue an inquiry into the “slush fund” affair.
Year ends mired in a stalemate
THE project of mutual character assassination reached a new depth of poison but ended in an inconclusive stalemate.
Real issue is whether the PM misled
The key issue is whether the PM, who denies all wrongdoing, misled the authorities in WA about the true purpose of that AWU association
PM told firm what she won’t tell parliament
JULIA Gillard admitted writing to a government department to help overcome its objections to the creation of an association for Bruce Wilson.
Pair come clean on dirty money
IT was dirty money and it was soggy money.
Attack would not hold up: QC
JULIA Gillard’s efforts to eliminate the accusations of Ralph Blewitt by attacking his character would never succeed in court, says Peter Faris QC.
Blewitt’s wife Ruby stands by her man
THE wife of former AWU bagman Ralph Blewitt has hit back ferociously in defence of her husband”.
Coming clean to blame the bagman
JULIA Gillard’s stress levels rise when the conmen who were her close friends immediately before she took a job in politics emerge again.
Wilson: the real crook is Blewitt
FORMER union boss Bruce Wilson said last night $100,000 was used to buy a house in Melbourne where the future PM would stay “from time to time”.
Attack-dog Abbott neutered
THIS year’s fiery parliamentary debate on sexism has neutered the Opposition Leader’s ability to play the role of attack-dog.
‘I put $5000 in Julia’s account’
FORMER AWU employee Wayne Hem stands by his claim Bruce Wilson told him to deposit $5000 into Julia Gillard’s account.
Bagman’s wife hits back at PM’s attack
RALPH Blewitt’s wife has ferociously defended her husband, saying Julia Gillard’s scathing assessment of the AWU bagman is untrue.
Wilson set to speak out on AWU scandal
JULIA Gillard’s former boyfriend Bruce Wilson appeared today to be preparing to give a rare television interview over his role in the AWU affair.
So much to know, why so little said?
THERE was plenty Julia Gillard did know at the time in 1995.
Situation turns on who was the client
THERE is a gap in the law governing exactly the sort of conduct that lies at the heart of Julia Gillard’s legal work for Bruce Wilson.
Julia’s first duty of care
AS a lawyer, the PM’s primary responsibility was to her client, the AWU.
Gillard rounds on AWU accusers
JULIA Gillard has delivered a forceful denial of wrongdoing in the AWU slush fund affair, attacking her accusers as peddlers of “sleaze and smear”.
Abbott to pick fight on ethics
TONY Abbott will today expand the Coalition attack on Julia Gillard, seeking to exploit the slush fund scandal by pressing for immediate IR reform.
Exit didn’t end AWU fraud
SEVERAL months after being kicked out of the AWU, Bruce Wilson was still removing union money from a different slush fund that had been kept hidden.
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