You know that I had a bit of bother with Fairfax management.

It's when the chips are down that you know who your friends are.

I am proud that Jason Morrison is my friend.

He's a great bloke, but more than that he is a first-class journalist, a scribe and broadcaster of record, a man who puts the truth first, then lets the cards fall where they will.

Jason Morrison loyally goes in to work at 2UE every day, going in to bat against the master of the radio craft Alan Jones at 2GB.  

When Alan Jones had his dramas with the Facebook and Twitter people every conceivable interest group got stuck in to him.   The ABC, Fairfax, advertisers - even some in the Murdoch press.   One bloke was conspicuous for sticking to his guns in his admiration for his commercial competitor - and that was Jason Morrison.   He never took the cheap shot at Alan, he just came in every day to tell the truth at 2UE.

http://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/11496

I have made a promise to myself to stick by my mates through thick and thin.  Jason Morrison has proven to be a mate to me.

Jason's employers are at 2UE and ultimately Fairfax Media.   You might like to let them know how you feel about Jason - or let Jason himself know.

It's not easy to always tell the truth.   Let's get behind someone who's showing us the way.

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Thank you Jason.   You are my mate.

For mine it needs a touch of Craig, a pinch of Bruce Wilson - a little drizzle of essence of slush fund, a bit of Williamson-wine, some Obeidification and voila!

And perhaps the Labor Logo - The Working Class Can Kiss.....

http://blogs.abc.net.au/victoria/2012/11/smoke-or-fire-in-anti-gillard-campaign-vic-labor-reveals-jobs-plan-new-research-centre-for-vic-plann.html?site=melbourne&program=melbourne 

Very disappointed John by your blatant journalistic bias on the AWU story. This story has gone way beyond the point where a serious investigative reporter can reasonably dismiss the case as ranting 'birthers' or right wing trogs. I'm an ardent Labour and union supporter. I believe passionately in the light on the hill. But I think the issues in the AWU case go right to the heart of what's wrong institutionally with the Australian Labor Party.

Judging from your comments this morning, I don't expect this comment to get a public airing but I do urge you (as a listener who has had nothing but respect for you for so many years) to consider the veracity of the categorical denial by Julia Gillard that she knew about the mortgage obtained by Wilson (in Blewitt's name) on the Kerr St property. She flatly denied last night in her statement that she had any recollection of her having any role in organising the mortgage for Wilson's blatantly fraudulent purchase. OK...consider this:

If Ms Gillard truly had no role in the mortgage then how is it that other documents in the publicly available conveyancing file clearly show what she has said cannot possibly be true - sourced to those documents. Not only is there the document referred to on last night's Seven Thirty Report (which records her involvement - albeit denied by her), there is also a file note on the file recording how Julia also asked for a memo on what higher interest rates would be charged on that mortgage if the mortgagee breached certain clauses. Ms Gillard asked for it in writing..and obtained the detail from her then PA.

This is significant because it proves - definitively - that Ms Gillard is not telling the truth about her supposed lack of knowledge of the mortgage at the time. She clearly knew about the mortgage and she directed the letter not to the registered owner (Blewitt) but to the real beneficiary, Bruce Wilson.

Your disgraceful attempt to use a character attack on Blewitt to discredit his evidence to Police does you no service. What you don't seem to understand is that Blewitt admits he's a crook - his sister's allegation is not something he disputes. He admits it. Now he's decided to make a clean breast of it.

You are a disgrace to your profession.
I will not be listening to you again.

Posted by: Sam Deed | November 23, 2012 at 12:10 PM

I was in Melbourne yesterday and I was present as an associate of mine returned from copying a large number of Federal Court files, including one newly found one.

Those files included sworn Affidavits, certified true copies of Exhibits to Affidavits, material returned to the Court in answer to Court issued Subpoenas and other file notes.

I carefully scrutinised a file of material supplied to the court by the Commonwealth Bank in answer to Ian Cambridge's enquiries.

I saw that one Exhibit was a photocopy of a cheque.   The Exhibit included the obverse and reverse of the cheque, that is the front and what was apparently the back of the cheque.

There was machine printed encoding on the back of the cheque, and handwriting.

I am told that the handwriting was present on the back of the cheque when it was produced by the Commonwealth Bank for the court and that it was written on the cheque at the time that it was filed into the bank's systems.

The drawer of the cheque is the Australian Workers' Union Members' Welfare Association No 1 Account.   That is a suspect AWU account established in Melbourne and operated by Bruce Morton Wilson and Jim Collins.

Bruce Wilson was dismissed from the union after he admitted "mixing private and union monies" in this account.  It was also described as a "slush fund".   The account is separate and distinct from the accounts styled AWU Workplace Reform Association.

The front of the cheque shows that it purports to be a good and valid order for the payment of cash in the amount of $15,000.   It was dated 27 April, 1995.   It is a negotiable order for the payment of money in that it is not endorsed in any way as a non-negotiable cheque.  That is to say that if the cheque was met on presentation the bank was authorised to hand over $15,000 in cash to the bearer of the cheque.

In handwriting on what I believe to be a copy of the back of the cheque I saw two notations.   They were "$5,000 cash and $10,000 K Spyridis B/Chq".

I can't imagine that Bruce Wilson was paying Mr Spyridis the builder for authorised union work - out of a slush fund.  

It will be interesting to see what Mr Spyridis says to the police if they were to talk to him.

News Limited's piece today - note particularly Bob Smith's recollection.

It's one thing to have memory problems or to make errors when you are talking to the press.

The presence of a police warrant card and an understanding of the penalties applicable to covering up crime are scientifically proven to improve human memory by up to 83.7%.