I thought you might be interested in revisiting our editorial and your comments from Monday, 17 August 2015 - the day Peter Gordon wrote to the Commission asking it to hand over correspondence.
You'll find this editorial there - two weeks to the day.
EXHIBIT ONE - THE HANSON-YOUNG TREATMENT
EXHIBIT TWO - GEORGE's SECOND CONTRIBUTION TODAY, THIS AFTER READING THE ACTUAL JUDGEMENT
For those who can't stomach the full Dave Oliver media conference outside the Corruption Royal Commission's hearings .. here's "the best of" his smears:
They lost the day and have lost the plot. Oliver has done substantial damage to his own career today as well.
A short time ago Bill Shorten's office issued this statement to media outlets:
Now compare and contrast Shorten's lightweight, illogical generalisations with the precision and gravitas of the case put by George Brandis, speaking with Peter van Onselen of Sky News.
The ABC framed today's event early on with this introduction, "Dyson Heydon will announce whether he is standing down" rather than dealing with the merits of the ACTU dodgy bias application.
Here's the ABC's political correspondent Greg Jennett discussing Commissioner Heydon's ruling - ABC tale appears to be between its legs.
Here's some of what passes for "news" at the ABC along with their ACTU/Labor script-writers.
#turc staff quickly distributed commissioner Heydon’s full finding. pic.twitter.com/AzKwS9ZXLQ
— Jonathan Green (@GreenJ) August 31, 2015
Dreyfus: I think this royal commission is irredeemably tainted by the events which have occurred #DysonHeydon #auspol
— ABC News 24 (@ABCNews24) August 31, 2015
"I think Australians now have fully and completely lost confidence in this royal commission." M. Dreyfus #auspol #turc
— Australian Labor (@AustralianLabor) August 31, 2015
"I think this royal commission is irredeemably tainted by the events which have occurred." M. Dreyfus #auspol #turc
— Australian Labor (@AustralianLabor) August 31, 2015
#ACTU statement from @actudave re: Commissioner Heydon's decision to dig in & stay at #turc. #auspol #ausunions pic.twitter.com/5Xfv9numER
— Australian Unions (@unionsaustralia) August 31, 2015
.@actudave: There is a resolution still to go before the Senate next week asking the Governor-General to remove #DysonHeydon #turc
— ABC News 24 (@ABCNews24) August 31, 2015
Nothing from this Royal Commission can be taken seriously - @actudave #auspol pic.twitter.com/hDwJVc4qaJ
— Ged Kearney (@GedKACTU) August 31, 2015
.@actudave: Tony Abbott admitted it last week, this is about him going after his opponents in the Labor Party #DysonHeydon #turc
— ABC News 24 (@ABCNews24) August 31, 2015
.@actudave: The reality is that this Royal Commission is now terminally tarnished #DysonHeydon #turc
— ABC News 24 (@ABCNews24) August 31, 2015
.@actudave: We're of the view that this Royal Commission is biased #DysonHeydon #turc
— ABC News 24 (@ABCNews24) August 31, 2015
And we'll leave the last respectful word about Commissioner Heydon AC QC to two senior leaders in one of the key unions he's inquiring into, John Setka and Michael O'Connor of the CFMEU. Setka has the unmitigated gall to compare the Commissioner with the Wolf of Wall Street.
“@CFMEUJohnSetka: A young Dyson Heydon "I'm not going anywhere!" #auspol #turc http://t.co/ELfIEdoXqm” best tweet yet #turc #auspol
— michael o'connor (@michael47818552) August 31, 2015
Great to see the good guys have a win today with Commissioner Heydon dismissing the ACTU's dubious apprehended bias application against him.
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The win over the ACTU makes the work here seem all the more worthwhile - as my nan would have said about the stories we report on "well you wouldn't read about it". But you do get to read about it here and with your help we can keep this site going.
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PS - don't forget that the matter of Bill Shorten and the Thiess $300,000 payment to the AWU will be back before the Commission soon and we will be there with your help.
Dave Oliver can't accept the umpire's decision and now wants federal Labor to ask the Governor General to sack Dyson Heydon.
The inquiry, he says, is "now terminally tarnished and biased"
UPDATED - HERE IS THE COMMISSIONER DELIVERING HIS JUDGEMENT
And here's the beginning of the hearing.
A few minutes to go and the gallery is already almost full.
Expectant looks from Mr Stoljar SC and Ms McNaughton SC.
Dave Oliver, the man ultimately responsible for the ACTU application.
Now 2PM and nobody at the bar table for the ACTU - that's a bit rich, it's their application.
2.01 and the Commissioner enters the hearing room.
The Commissioner commenced by asking if anyone was aware of the whereabouts of the ACTU's legal representatives. In another example of the ACTU's contempt for the Commission, there is no representative of the ACTU, the party that brought the application that's being decided on today.
The Commissioner has described the circumstances through which the application arose - firstly the request for documents from the Commission which was made on the morning of 17 August, 2015. The Commissioner stated that the documents described in that application were supplied within two hours.
By consent orders were made that any submission or application for disqualification be made by the following Thursday with oral arguments to be made on the morning of Friday 21 August, 2015.
Further submissions were made during the following week.
The applications have been DISMISSED.
THE COMMISSION IS ADJOURNED - TO RECONVENE AT 10AM TOMORROW MORNING FOR FURTHER CFMEU ACT BRANCH CORRUPTION HEARINGS
UPDATE - 2.25PM
No apparent reaction on the Twitter accounts of Dave Oliver, Ged Kearney, Australian Unions or others yet.
At 2.30 the TURC website has gone into meltdown.
Journalist Michaela Whitbourn tweets the Heydon Judgement is 67 pages long - apparently demand for it has caused problems for the TURC computer servers.
#TURC Commish Dyson Heydon says he will stay.We've got 67 pages of reasons. Unions likely considering legal challenge pic.twitter.com/P2vnKQPdwu
— Michaela Whitbourn (@MWhitbourn) August 31, 2015
The Commission has published the following links to documents including the Commissioner's Judgement and reasons for judgement: