He's motivated.
He's Machiavellian.
And let's face it, he's got nothing else.
Rudd is Labor's last chance
- February 20, 2013 Mark Baker
This dysfunctional government should face the harsh reality. For the greater good, Gillard must go, Rudd should be reinstated and an election called immediately.
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Good on Mark Baker and Fairfax for taking an independent line in describing Ms Gillard's activities in the lead up to the false incorporation of the sham entity the AWU-WRA Inc.
Mark says this,
One might have thought Gillard would be wiser to keep her distance from anything involving the initials AWU as the Victorian police fraud squad continues its intensive investigation into the hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from an AWU slush fund she helped to incorporate as a young lawyer by her former boyfriend and AWU official Bruce Wilson, once the golden-haired protege of Bill Ludwig.
Gillard's illogical claim has been that she provided advice on the incorporation, like a benign observer,"I'd suggest a letter in a 10 point Times New Roman font, see you later."
Much of the media slavishly repeats the Gillard line, no doubt under lawyerly instructions. To some extent I can understand why. It's safe and she's a fierce and amoral offender in issuing threats and causing damage to people who say things she doesn't like. But it's also misleading and we deserve the truth.
She wasn't giving advice from a distance. She helped. She acted in concert doing things to achieve the end of separating Thiess and the AWU from control of its money. Blewitt's writing is on the forms stating things that are false and misleading. So is Gillard's. There was no union authorisation to use the union's name. If her claim is that Blewitt and Wilson gave her that authority she'd better hope for a deaf dumb and blind jury and a snoozing apres lunch judge.
