Interesting "todo" from Sgt McAlpine;

"2) Seize w/processor to see if invoices etc are still on the "

Hands up anyone who really believes that happened.
Maybe they'll find it in the same place that the S&G and WA Corporate Affairs files are.

Another bottom of the harbour job I reckon.

I wonder if the WA investigating officers ever looked at the incorporation files of the AWU-WRA that are now missing.

How would one go about finding out?

Here's the obvious point- Just the mere fact that Gillard had to explain to her S and G partners what the AWU-WRA was (ie a vehicle for collecting Union "slush" funds) proves that this was NOT common Union practice at the time...

Such re-election funds were maintained within the Unions accounting system as separate accounts that Union officials had deductions from their pay regularly deposited into, as the WA Branch accountant at the time points out... Such an account had already been set up by Wilson...

So if Julia Gillard pulled the strings to get THIS completely unaffiliated (the key point here)body set up (she does not deny that she KNEW it was being set up as an unaffiliated body... Indeed, she intended it to be separate to other official Union bodies for similar purposes), then what possible reason could she have for taking such action AND THEN failing to notify either her partners at S and G or indeed their clients (and hers) the Union of its existence or her role in its existence??

She set it up therefore knowing that the due officers of the Unions' financial control and management had no knowlege of it. She saw no need to advise them of same, or her partners at S and G...

Further she knew financial activities and accounts were being operated from within it, as her Blewitt Power of Attorney and conveyancing on the Fitzroy property readily reveals...

So the two things together... She knows the Unions' financial control personnel have no knowledge of AWU-WRA's existence, as it exists OUTSIDE their systems (ostensibly on her advice and with her explicit assistance to establish)... She also knows beyond doubt that large sums of money are being funneled through it by Wilson, whom she directly helps to get money into it (recall her visit to the speak with Wilson to the WA workers resulting in AWU-WRA taking control of their $) and also to be solely in control of the flows of these funds (POA from Blewitt)

At best, Gillard is evidentially knowingly complicit in these affairs... At worst she is the real mastermind behind the construction, operation and hiding of this complex fraud..

We should be demanding that the police do their job and speak to Blewitt... We also should be demanding a royal commission as soon as the Coalition is elected...

Michael,

I applaud your efforts and courage in pursuing this corruption.

And yet still much of the mainstream media ignores it. Much of it is too esoteric for the average apathetic punter in Australia to even consider in the court of public opinion. And it seems that the appropriate authorities are reluctant or hobbled in pursuing it.

At what point does/can one pull all this into a brief of evidence for a civil prosecution ( e.g. under the Crimes Act 1914)? I believe there is clear past precedent for civil proceedings being initiated and subsequently taken over as criminal prosecutions. Maybe this is the way to get the ball rolling after the crooks.

Surely there must be some decent lawyers out there who could help.

Ah Michelle you've made my day, what a perfect description and so eloquently put!

Re Bring back the balance @ 12.54pm:

Agree with all of that, and one other thing to add:

My understanding is that it is common practice for companies (those with some sense of proper procedure) who wish to "donate" money to a union for the "benefit" of its members to instruct the company solicitor to transfer funds to the trust fund of the union's solicitor. In that way union auditors/accountants could account for these funds. Of course, in view of the parlous state of some unions today, this is clearly not universal.

The practice of "donation" of any funds is obviously a threat to union integrity. Whether any Royal Commission can entirely eliminate it through its recommendations , is another question.

ROBBO I THOUGHT I WAS UNSHOCKABLE WHEN IT CAME TO THE ALP AND UNIONS HOWEVER KANGAROO COURT AUSTRALIA POST TODAY WAS UNBELIEVABLE.
THE DEPT OF CORRUPTION IS TRULY CHILLING.
ALONG WITH ALL THIS CORRUPTION WE ARE STUCK WITH A BLOODLESS RUTHLESS FAKE REDHEADED BOGAN WHO IS HATED BY DECENT AUSTRALIANS

@Bring Back the Balance | Monday, 29 October 2012 at 12:54 PM

Very well put. So. how do we induce the police to act, if they will not?

Order for mandamus from the Supreme Court?

http://www.lawhandbook.org.au/handbook/ch21s02s03.php#

Mandamus is an order issued by the court against a tribunal, public body or official requiring it to perform a duty which it has failed to perform.

Private information and summons?

@ Fred | Monday, 29 October 2012 at 05:46 PM

The PM could not use public funds to pay for lawyers. It would be hard for her to run the country if she was putting out legal bushfires in the courts.

Is there enough information to get an order for mandamus? I suppose it depends on the genuineness of the POA, and the registration of the AWU-WRA and the handwriting on the back of the cheque, and the adequacy of the intial police investigation. That would have to be put before the court I suppose.

An interesting idea? Any lawyers outh there that might have thoughts?

I'm an ex bankie, from 1977-1990. I seem to recall that incorporated bodies who wished to open bank accounts had to supply a copy of the constitution of the organization and a copy of the relative minute for sighting by the Bank before accounts could be opened. Maybe Mr Blewitt could be asked about the actual opening of the accounts and if these documents were provided to the Bank.

I know it's a long shot, but could there be any documents in old records?