This is what Miss Gillard said about the thinking behind the AWU-WRA at her departure interview.   Keep in mind she was the expert, the lawyer, who tells us she was giving advice about how to achieve what her clients wanted.

It's, it's common practice, indeed every union has what it refers to as a re-election fund, slush fund, whatever, which is the funds that the leadership team, into which the leadership team puts money so that they can finance their next election campaign. It is not proper to use union resources for election campaigns so you need to finance them yourself. Some of them, you know, they can cost $10,000, $20,000 -- they're not cheap. So the usual mechanism people use to amass that amount of money is that they require the officials who ran on their ticket to enter payroll deduction schemes where money each week or fortnight goes from their pay into a bank account which is used for re-election purposes from time to time. They also have different fundraisers, dinners and raffles and so on to amass the necessary amount of money to mount their re-election campaign.

The thinking behind the forming of incorporated associations is that it had been our experience that if you did it in a less formal way, you just had someone, say Fred Bloggs, say, oh look, I'll just open a bank account and everybody can put the money into there, the problem developed that when the leadership team fractured, as relatively commonly happens, you got into a very difficult dispute about who was the owner of the monies in the bank account, so it was better to have an incorporated association, a legal entity, into which people could participate as members, that was the holder of the account.

So if that was true, why then did Blewitt and Wilson open an actual account called the WA Election Fund in December, 1994?

And this is what Ian Cambridge had to say about the WA Election Fund account.

Miss Gillard worked on the AWU-WRA in 1992.   She was interviewed about it in 1995.   Wilson set up the WA Election Fund in 1994.   Puts her comments about the necessity for incorporation to safeguard members funds in an election fund into doubt.