I was quite disturbed to read this letter from law lecturers and professors associated with the University of Melbourne Law School. Download StopTheAbuseLetter 

What a shame that the law faculty would get itself fired into action over media depictions, cartoons and comments from ordinary citizens without even inclining its head towards the prima-facie offences disclosed in the Prime Minister's behaviour.  

These are the people who are charged with producing our next generation of lawyers, officers-of-the-court - and in due course our Judges and Magistrates.  

It takes some co-ordination to produce a text and then to have appended to it the signatures of some dozens of very important people.   It's a shame that not one of the signatories from the ranks of the Melbourne Law School Professors and others have turned their attention to ethics, professional misconduct, misprison of felony, aiding and abetting in the commission, continuance, completion or concealment of serious indictable offences, obtaining a financial advantage by deception, imposition on the taxpayer, the creation of a false instrument and quite a range of other most distasteful activities.  

I hope the Melbourne Law School arrests its own progress down the slippery continuum on which it is descending.   A logical next step for it is to offer courses in "how to" get away with $540,000 in other people's money.  

I will write to the professors today with a detailed letter describing Ms Gillard's course of conduct in The AWU Scandal and as always you can rest assured that I will let you know of their response.  

I do not endorse nor have I ever been associated with the cartoons or lurid and fanciful depictions of Miss Gillard's activities - I hope that those of you who have been visiting this site (about 350,000 page impressions) and my Facebook page (261,000 individual separate people in the past 7 days) will keep me and your fellow visitors on the straight and narrow so far as standards of taste and decency are concerned.  

It is abominable and frankly atrocious behaviour on the part of the custodians of the law at what used to be one of our great institutions of learning, to  turn their taxpayer-funded attention and skills to a wordy treatise on a side-show when the weight of evidence about egregious malfeasance in The AWU Scandal is here on this website - and on that issue our learned friends remain mute.

No wonder our children are confused about matters of ethics and professional conduct.   A formerly distinguished law school tacitly endorses Miss Gillards behaviour and lobbies for the cessation of scrutiny - with its weighty letter released to coincide with Miss Gillard's return to the Parliament after an absence in which many decent people suspended their scrutiny of her role in this affair.  

Shame on you Melbourne Law School.