Gillard defends silence on fund
JULIA Gillard has hit out at suggestions that she failed to tell authorities about a union slush fund she helped to set up.
Investigations
Call would have ‘led to fund inquiry’
ONE telephone call would have confirmed that a union slush fund was a mystery to its own branch, says a former AWU boss.
Silence kept the fraud happening
WHY were police and the clean-skin leadership of a major union not told of a secret entity that had been used in a major fraud?
Bishop insists PM clarify claims
THE Coalition has demanded Julia Gillard offer a full parliamentary explanation over her involvement in a union slush fund.
Union heads not told about fund
TWO disgraced union officials were able to sell a Melbourne terrace house and keep fraudulently obtained money.
Gillard grilled on AWU file dates
THE opposition has challenged Julia Gillard’s declaration that she did not know anything further about the workings of an AWU “slush fund”.
Fund questions offensive: Gillard
JULIA Gillard has accused Tony Abbott of endorsing an “offensive” strategy to continue asking questions about her time at Slater & Gordon.
Slush fund official was a ‘stooge’
DOCUMENTS show Ralph Blewitt, who has admitted to fraud with a slush fund connected to Julia Gillard, was regarded as an “imbecile”.
Banksia burnt by bad debts, properties
BANKSIA Securities’ collapse was exacerbated by an apparent failure to account for $200m in overdue loans and repossessed homes.
Union slush fund papers vanish
DOCUMENTS essential in the fraudulent operation of a union slush fund Julia Gillard helped to establish 20 years ago are missing.
Tinkler agrees to payment deadline
MINING entrepreneur Nathan Tinkler has agreed to settle a $17 million land purchase with listed property developer Mirvac.
AWU stalwart calls for slush fund probe
A STAUNCH Labor supporter is calling for a public inquiry into a slush fund at the heart of a scandal that has dogged Julia Gillard.
Fridriksson ‘to focus on PNG’
THE Cairns-based Cape York Institute has confirmed its chief executive, property developer Gummi Fridriksson, is on extended leave.
Paga link to ‘PNG deceased’ profits
CONSULTANCY firms linked to a Cairns executive were accused of illegally profiting from the estates of deceased PNG nationals.
Aborigines’ champion ‘evicts’ PNG’s poor
A CHAMPION of indigenous communities in Australia has been accused of human rights abuses in PNG after settlers’ homes were bulldozed.
Roxon worked files after Gillard left
NICOLA Roxon did sensitive legal work for the AWU during a formal probe following the departure of Julia Gillard from Slater & Gordon.
Questions over slush fund’s role
JULIA Gillard wrote in an application to establish an entity for her then client and boyfriend that it was being formed to achieve safe workplaces.
RBA exposes low-doc loans risk
LOW-doc loans have a much greater default risk than standard mortgages.
Gillard: I should have opened file
JULIA Gillard admitted to Slater & Gordon that she should have opened a file for the legal work that she had done for Bruce Wilson.
ASIC says no to low-doc loan inquiry
THE corporate regulator has refused to investigate a claim of alleged low-doc loan fraud despite expert claims.
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