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Posts will be light tomorrow morning!

Wednesday, 04 October 2023

I inadvertently left my computer charger at a location a couple of hours from home!

Going to have to retrace my steps in the morning to get it back.

Meanwhile I'll run out of juice overnight.

See you when I'm plugged in again.

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Yes, or YUCK!!!!!

Wednesday, 04 October 2023

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Fantastic!!! Alan Jones is absolutely fabulous on The Voice.

Wednesday, 04 October 2023

To my fellow Aussie NO voters, the first 2 minutes of this video with Alan Jones standing up for the NO speaks volumes. I’d love to see what these yes voters have to say to this!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌 pic.twitter.com/98UklERuo6
— Just a girl from downunder with a love for doggos (@JustKimfromoz) October 3, 2023

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Albanese praises Ray Martin's 'Dinosaurs and Dickheads' speech against NO vote.

Wednesday, 04 October 2023

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A lovely story from our mate Sally Lloyd in remote Mougulu, highlands of Papua New Guinea

Wednesday, 04 October 2023

From Sally Lloyd

In Papua New Guinea next week is Grade 10 national examinations week. This is of critical importance, with ONLY students meeting a certain grade in these examinations being able to continue to Grade 11. If we don't sit the exam all our students will fail.

Out here in remote PNG we were losing hope with no flights planned... then -

Huge thanks to Roger from Nuigini Helicopters for securely & willingly bringing our Examination Papers!! This gives us hope for our students.. I wish them all the best and may many of them go in to serve their own people and move our communities forward.

A great reminder that all is not lost and we have many terrific people who help to make the world go around!

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Labor - exporting our wealth, importing landfill.

Wednesday, 04 October 2023

To build Australia’s biggest wind farm, you need some massive blades.

These have just arrived in Geelong, on their way to the new Golden Plains Wind Farm in Western Victoria.

Our renewable transformation is no small job - take a look. pic.twitter.com/POMMSwDMBP
— Lily D'Ambrosio MP (@LilyDAmbrosioMP) October 3, 2023

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Crying out for a caption!

Wednesday, 04 October 2023

Thanks Alpha Fox for the tip!

Apparently hotter than her brother.

Why is Ilhan Omar looking at Matt Gaetz like that?

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— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) October 3, 2023

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Welcome back to country Therapeutic Albo

Wednesday, 04 October 2023

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Tanya Plibersek loves the official AEC's colours too.

Tuesday, 03 October 2023

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YES campaign dirty trick called out by spineless Electoral Commission.

Tuesday, 03 October 2023

Vanity Voicers caught cheating.

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Bottom of barrel for The Guardian - Mundine’s estranged daughter disagrees with him.

Tuesday, 03 October 2023

The Left will do and say anything to advance the cause.

But this is low rent from The Guardian, edited by twisted leftist and long running champion man-hater Lenore Taylor.

Warren Mundine’s daughter says his opposition to voice not ‘morally right’ | Indigenous voice to parliament | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/02/warren-mundines-daughter-says-his-opposition-to-voice-not-morally-right

Warren Mundine’s adult daughter disagrees with him on Albanese’s Vanity Voice

Big deal.

Even less of a story when you read that the daughter doesn’t have much of a relationship with him.

Bullshit story.

Lenore would have signed off on this attempted character assassination of Mundine and it failed miserably…like many things she touches.

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Kamala Harris. Unburdened by competence.

Monday, 02 October 2023

"Does my bum look big in this catch-phrase?"

Kamala Harris is also "unburdened" by competency pic.twitter.com/3XKC7hKvLD
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 1, 2023

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DATE	EVENT/DOCUMENT
1990	Julia Gillard becomes a Partner at Slater and Gordon and is in the Industrial Relations Department of law firm
20-08-91	Letter to Bruce Wilson from Julia Gillard concerning a vacancy at the AWU
1-05-91	Julia Gillard brought her property at 36 Phillip Street, Abbotsford Vic property settled in July and she borrowed $40,000 from Slater & Gordon for the deposit and the rest from Westpac bank
6-03-92	Advertisement appeared in the paper for Incorporating the Workplace Reform Association - Theiss may have used it for reference

17-03-92	Locals concerned the Accident and Death Fund was being used to buy property and office equipment with the funds they paid into the fund.
18-03-92	Boulder fund suspended
15-05-92	Bruce Wilson and Julia Gillard go to a meeting with the miners in Kalgoorlie
18-05-92	AWU announce it is taking over the fund at Boulder paper article
13-02-93	Contract of sale signed by Bruce Wilson
13-02-93	Purchase of 85 Kerr Street Fitzroy by Julia Gillard and B Wilson who attended the Auction
13-02-93	blewitt-getting-his-addres.html Purchase of 85 Kerr Street Fitzroy by Julia Gillard and Bruce Wilson who attended the Auction
15-02-93	Letter to Slater & Gordon about the 1/85 Kerr Street sale
15-02-93	Ralph Blewitt is appointed Western Australian Branch Secretary in the week 15 to 19 February
16-02-93	Olive Brosnan and Heidi chasing up the Power of Attorney - notes
17-02-93	Olive Brosnan makes this further note regarding Heidi, a sales person with the Real Estate firm GA Thomson. Note that Heidi returns the call and says that she will let Olive Brosnan have the original Power of Attorney (when she gets it?) and will need a certified copy in return
22-02-93	Slater and Gordon acknowledges that it has received the Contract of Sale, Section 32 Statement and the Power of Attorney from GA Thomson.
23-02-93	Olive Brosnan certifies Power of Attorney
3-03-93	A memo from Sylvia to Olive Brosnan about the application for the loan for Ralph Blewitt and the Kerr Street property
4-03-93	Letter/fax from Hewitt & Company stating Ralph Blewitt Wages Ref VB/CS
9-03-93	Memo to Olive Brosnan from Sylvia about the loan approval and the return of the chq for $500 from Ralph Blewitt’s personal account
10-03-93	Letter from Slater & Gordon addressed to Ralph Blewitt explaining mortgage details Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
10-03-93	Memo Julia Gillard wants details of penalty interest rates
12-03-93	Memo to Julia Gillard from Olive Brosnan about penalty interest rates
17-03-93	Memo of fees for house - Bill of costs
18-03-93	Letter to Ralph Blewitt requesting Cheque for $67,772.30
18-03-93	The cheque for $67,772.30
22-03-93	Settlement date for Kerr Street purchase
23-03-93	Land Transfer document
31-03-94	Dawesville project costs
Aug-Sept 94	Julia Gillard went on holidays while Bruce Wilson organised house renovations
Aug-Sept 94	Interview with Slater & Gordon about the Renovations
6-02-95	New bank accounts for Construction Fund
17-02-95	AWU-FIME amalgamate (2 Victorian Branches)
12-04-95	Cheque from AWU WRAI account $46,550
27-04-95	Cheque for $15000 - $10 000 for K Spyridis and $5000 cash
30-06-95	AWU went back to central funding arrangements
25-07-95	Letter from Robert Smith (AWU) to Ian Cambridge and Steve Harrison about the unknown AWU bank accounts
27-07-95	Letter to the National Executives about the freezing of the accounts
2-08-95	Union National Finance committee meet to discuss what was going on start of investigations into the frozen accounts
4-08-95	Bob Smith wrote to Ian Cambridge to say the AWU was going to charge Bruce Wilson
10-08-95	Ian Cambridge visits QC Richard Kenzie from Maurice Blackburn for discussions to fix it (get union money back)
14-08-95	Internal Review into Julia Gillard’s involvement of the AWU -WRA and she is put on restricted duties
14/15 Aug 95	Other Joint secretaries of the Unions paid out the signatories of the accounts - hand writing on the cheques Link 1 Link 2
16-08-95	Bruce Wilson redundancy cheque $55,204
17-08-95	Letter to stop the cheques Ian Cambridge
17/18 Aug 95	All accounts were closed bar 2 general and grants accounts and redundancies given out
18-08-95	Affidavit - Bill Ludwig - Bruce Wilson get sprung
11-09-95	Julia Gillard interviewed by Geoff Shaw, Peter Gordon and Nick Styant-Browne at Slater and Gordon - It’s recorded and she goes on leave of Absence until May 96 (WA AWU-WRA not yet discovered by AWU yet)
31-01-96	Ian Cambridge addresses AWU Qld Branch meeting
3-04-96	Ian Cambridge talked with Commonwealth Bank - Diary entry - Discovery of Workplace Reform Association INC. WA branch
6-05-96	Discovery of Accounts in AWU name by Ian Cambridge letter from Commonwealth Bank
7-05-96	Fax from Com bank listing the accounts in the AWU name - for Ian Cambridge
1-06-96	Newspaper article about Joe Trio and the AWU fraud article from sometime in 1996
3-06-96	Ian Cambridge received bank records after the discussions with the bank back in April Ian Cambridge spoke to AWU Officials in Perth and they never heard of the Workplace Reform Association Inc.
5-07-96	Diary entry Ian Cambridge - spoke to Branch Official Russell Frearson about the $400,000 going through the account
31-07-96	Geoff Shaw Slater & Gordon General Manager gets Subpoena to supply all documents relating to purchase of 1/85 Kerr Street
13-08-96	Court proceeding where Geoff Shaw is to produce the documents from the Subpeona Link 1, Link 2
6-01-97	Memo from Investigating Detective Dave McAlpine about the AWU fraud
6-02-97	Memo to fraud squad from Theiss stating they hadn’t been defrauded Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4
17-02-98	Memo fraud squad about Theiss - Ralph Blewitt said Theiss auditors required that the WRA needed to be Inc.