Surely this proposed meeting with Vic Fraud Squad could either be very embarrassing for certain people or Ralph might find the door to the Offices are locked

Blewey's return!

That reads as Ralph has made the appointment not the police. So don't get hopes up.

Good luck Ralph I hope your not the one that get hung out to dry while others are ignored at best.

Perhaps I need a tin foil hat but recently the Victorian government has a few embarrassing moments.

The premier Andrews made some ugly remarks re the former member for Carrum and her cancer battle which both major papers investigated and went to print with the detail.

Andrews is also up to his neck in bad press over his forced take over of the country fire authority by the united fire fighters union.

The then emergency services minister resigned over that issue and was allegedly threatened.

Lastly Andrews is traveling overseas at the time a supreme court challenge is being mounted to his abominable Sky Rail and the Frankston line decision on rail under road or sky rail is expected this week.

I can't help but wonder if getting Ralph back now might be to create a media distraction.

Hope I am 100% wrong it would be great to see justice come to these who have tried to cover this up.

Can we ask who is funding this trip? I can't, on the face of it, see that there is much in it for Mr Blewitt, unless he was coming anyway. Strange.

I can't believe the super efficient and effective Victorian police fraud squad would be calling Ralph down to Melbourne to tell him they have got nothing. Unless they are just faffing about. Unless Ralph has gone down on his own for a face to face. My money would be on him and hopefully others being charged. Perhaps Michael you could ring Wilson and ask him how its hanging for him? I wonder if it would be a good thing for the MSM chooks to be given a heads up? Edward James from the Dolls House

What a farce it is, what can only be seen as Commissioner Heydon's attempted whitewash of Julia Gillard!

Chapter 3-2 Interim Report.
Para 326. "So far as the crime allegedly committed by Ralph Blewitt and Bruce Wilson concerns a false representation that there was an unincorporated association in existence at the time application was made for the incorporation, there is insufficient evidence to establish that she KNOWINGLY permitted Ralph Blewitt to file the Application in the manner he did and to establish that she knew what was in the Certificate."

H/B. Bear in mind Heydon's Report was written in full knowledge of Gillard's confession she knew from the time she first suggested an association to Wilson, at all times she gave advice and assistance, no eligible unincorporated association ever existed as required by the Act.

Julia Gillard 21 May 1992 Memorandum to Ralph Blewitt.

Para 90. On 21 May 1992 Julia Gillard sent the following memorandum to Ralph Blewitt.

TO Ralph Blewitt FROM Julia Gillard
RE: AUSTRALIAN WORKERS' UNION WORKPLACE REFORM ASSOCIATION.

"I have received a letter from the Office of State Corporate Affairs regarding the Association.
To finalise the Incorporation, you now need to write to Mr. Ray Neal. Assistant Director, Office of State Corporate Affairs, Box W2072. GPO Perth 6001 on Association letterhead with the letter to read as follows.

'Dear Mr. Neal.
RE: AUSTRALIAN WORKERS UNION - WORKPLACE REFORM ASSOCIATION.

I refer to your letter dated the 15th May 1992.

On behalf of the Association. I undertake that the Association will amend its rules within thirty days of being notified of its incorporation to include a new Rule 3A as follows:

The Interpretation of the Objects of the Association.

The objects specified in sub Rule 3(1) must not be interpreted as meaning that the Association aims to seek to regulate the relations between workmen and employers, or between workmen and workmen, or between employers and employers, or aims to impose or have imposed by others any restrictive conditions on the conduct of any trade or business.'

I look forward to promptly receiving the notification that the Association has been incorporated.

Yours faithfully
Ralph Blewitt
Secretary."

'This should finalise the incorporation but if there are any further difficulties, please give me a ring.
JULIA.'

Para 88. "The expression 'existing rules' indicates that Ray Neal, unlike Ralph Blewitt, Bruce Wilson and Julia Gillard, was assuming that the association to be incorporated actually existed. There is no record of communication advising him of this divergence from reality, even though Julia Gillard at the time of giving evidence at least, was conscious of it."

H/B. From Paras 87-98, Commissioner Heydon is absolutely scathing of Gillard's actions in relation to her treatment of Ralph Blewitt and others after "The Office of State Corporate Affairs raises query".

What in essence she had Blewitt undertake to do, required the setting up of an unincorporated association from scratch, through to lodging a lawful Application to Incorporate, a task she knew was impossible. It had taken her with considerable assistance from others, some 17 months to achieve incorporation of the socialist activist group, Socialist Forum Inc., where she served as Public Officer/Secretary from 1985 right through her legal career which was cut short by her partners over her role in the AWU-WRA Inc Affair and associated frauds.

"insufficient evidence to establish that she KNOWINGLY permitted Ralph Blewitt to file the Application in the manner he did?"

Bovine Manure Commissioner Heydon!!!

BTW Ralph. Good luck. I don't think you've really got too many worries. There will be a lot of strings pulled and many favours called in to prevent this ever going to court, Too much potential collateral damage for too many prominent but corrupt people across many professions!

Cheers H/B

Why do you want to know Who funds this trip?

Ralph is a private person he can do whatever he likes, without having to tell you 'who pays'.

This happens to be none of your business.

Thanks for the succinct summation H/B, you have really put the issues together.

Could I offer a suggestion to GOM?

If any of the prominent, corrupt people in many professions, now in positions of power in Victoria, prefer charges against you.........plead "Not Guilty!!" and don't plea bargain.

Thinking of you,Ralph. Best wishes.

If you think this is going anywhere you are kidding yourself. The birds have flows the coup.

Ralph, you beauty, it seems you beat the system with a confession. Are we talking law here or religion?

Hi Roger. In a different way, Gillard beat the system with a confession to knowledge of everything Commissioner Heydon set out in Para 59 of his Report, in particular, "she also accepted that on her instructions at the time there was no unincorporated association".

Heydon then stated in Para 60 that: "If she knowingly permitted Ralph Blewitt to file the Application with all its falsehoods, she would have either failed to notice or deliberately ignored the requirement for an association to exist before incorporation and the substantive considerations underlying that requirement".

Further, "If she deliberately ignored the matters described, she was party to Ralph's deceit".

In Para 95, Commissioner Heydon, after airily "Putting aside the practical difficulty that the Association never had the five members it was supposed to have had", said: "there is no reason to suppose that Ralph Blewitt unaided could have navigated the dangers created" by named sections of the Act......."

"She said she 'provided advice to Mr. Blewitt about the resolution of the issue. Whether he accepted that advice or acted on it is entirely a matter for him.' Heydon asks: "But by what means did he know how to act on it?"

Para 96. "There is an analogy with lawyers giving undertakings to a court on behalf of their clients. It is vital to ensure that the client understands what the undertaking calls for and what the consequences of breach are.....
Dealings with government officials who have power to make decisions creating new legal persons should be conducted in accordance with standards of the utmost punctiliousness. Ralph Blewitt was not the man to meet them unaided."
Para 97. "Advice by a solicitor to a man like Ralph Blewitt to give an undertaking to an important government official on an important matter was to set him on a path which he lacked the capacity to meet. To advise in that way was not to treat that official with respect."

In para 98 Heydon referring to Gillard's 21 May 1992 memorandum, states: "It was not good practice to have failed to warn Ralph Blewitt of the seriousness of giving an undertaking to government officials and not complying with it, and to have failed to spell out in detail how it was to be complied with. Julia Gillard here incurred a duty to act, however narrow her retainer. The conduct of those involved widened the retainer."

Gillard has admitted that in full knowledge of the fact there was no existing unincorporated association as required by the Act, she created the 21 May 1992 memorandum to Ralph Blewitt with the word for word undertaking she alone composed and caused him to forward to Ray Neal.

This was the final link in what Heydon found was the "fraudulent misrepresentation" to the CAC leading him to grant a Certificate of Incorporation creating a third WA AWU but bogus entity, albeit bearing the unauthorised and therefore unlawful use of the AWU corporate name, that as engagement solicitor for the two AWU branches she had a fiduciary duty to defend as set out by Heydon in Para 55.

The sham Association was Gillard's 'baby' from start to finish. She alone suggested its formation and the totally unsuitable non-industrial Act to be used. Certainly from around April 20 1992, she had Wilson and Blewitt totally dependent on her advice, guiding and assisting them every step of the way in the "fraudulent misrepresentation" to Ray Neal.

Commissioner Heydon knew all this when compiling his Report but as a final insult to peoples' intelligence in his considerable extensive attempted 'defence' of the pivotal role played by Ms. Gillard, in Para 430 he described Union reps Bruce Wilson and Ralph Blewitt as "sloppy and unlawyerly"!

To be fair, Commissioner Heydon did say in Para 57 that "Ralph Blewitt may not have appreciated he was making any fraudulent misrepresentation".
(But the evidence shows Ms. Gillard certainly knew at all times!)

Sorry Commissioner Heydon. In all matters pertaining to the sham association and creation of the bogus entity, the evidence seems to clearly indicate that certainly from April 1992 at least, they were following Ms. Gillard's 'lawyerly' advice to the letter in the creation of what Chief Magistrate Lauritsen agreed with Sgt Ross Mitchell of the Victorian Fraud Squad, were documents prepared for fraud!

What further proof is needed of Gillard's culpability?

Now, we [just] need deliberation and deliverance [for justice] in a court of law.

Hello, how are you, see you are just as on the ball as
before.
I just hope we may see your writings again perhaps during or after Ralph's visit.

MPS - granted in the case of a conspiracy to "cheat and defraud". But how does one establish the existence of such a conspiracy in the first place? Suppose a talented motor mechanic is approached by someone (complete stranger or known acquaintance) to seriously "soup up" a car. The motor mechanic does a fantastic job. But the car is subsequently used in a bank robbery. Does that mean the motor mechanic should be charged with conspiracy to rob a bank? How does one establish what the motor mechanic knew, or did not know, when initially approached?

Using the mechanic example, Gillard being the licensed professional. With all the knowledge to know legal compliance is integral. The vehicle is registered for use on a public road. And the mechanic, licensed to do vehicle inspections. Paralleling Gillards involvement with Wilson who need her professional help to create a way to get money from Theiss independently of the official AWU. The vehicle which was used as a getaway car. The AWU/WRA Inc was used to commit fraud. The evidence of conspiracy may be the illegal modifications which the mechanic made, like Gillard ignoring the laws and regulations to help et the AWU/WRA up and running. To a vehicle which must be as built to comply with registration and insurance. Claiming she was young and naive doesn't cut it with me. Would be like the mechanic claiming he didn't understand 'souping up' a car to such an extent that it was not complying with the law was wrong. Edward James from the Dolls House

If it smells like conspiracy, then surely it must be a conspiracy. Ergo!

TWO - do you really think a Court of Law would entertain such an argument and then deliver judgement in accord with such an argument? If so, you would be a dream client for any unscrupulous QC or SC!

Hi Pegasus. Sad you think I was "playing the man" and "rounding on someone" etc.,etc., and you do know me better. Sounds like I had better beware of s18C which has given people the right to feel offended even though no offence was intended! LOL!

The substantive argument in my post was that I posed what I consider to be a reasonable and valid question: "give one valid, plausible, innocent reason for Gillard to have had any involvement in this matter at all."

Gillard gave her reason, unsupported by any evidence.
Commissioner Heydon's answer is as stated in para 430:
Michael TDA echoed that in reply to me some time ago.
I have given the reasons, mostly in Heydon's own words, why I believe that is not supported by any evidence.

For the life of me, I still can't see where you or anyone else has ever responded to that challenge by answering that one simple question.

In Paras 102 - 104, by restricting what she'd done as merely breaching s43 of the Act, Commissioner Heydon sought to trivialise her role in the 'fraudulent misrepresentation' to the public and the WA Corporate Affairs Commissioner, part of the already existing ample foundation of unprofessional conduct totally out of character compared to her work before hooking up with Wilson, and documented by Commissioner Heydon in many of the Paras I've highlighted numerous times.

BREACH OF ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 1987 (WA)
Para 102: "Another possible criticism is that Julia Gillard was knowingly concerned in or party to deceiving a public authority, the Corporate affairs Commission of Western Australia, by the preparation and lodgement of documents which were false or misleading.
Section 43 of the Act provides etc., etc..........".

George Brandis, Julie Bishop and other solicitors:

"We say that she broke the law because the Australian Workers Union Workplace Reform Association was established as a sham to facilitate a fraud and by her participation in its establishment, Julia Gillard was a party to that crime.

Now, it is against the law of every Australian State, including the law of Western Australia, to provide a materially false statement when a person is under a statutory obligation to provide information to an authority. That is the effect of section 170 of the Western Australian Criminal Code in the terms in which it was drawn at the time of these events in 1992.

It is also, of course, a crime to participate in a conspiracy to defraud – that is also a statutory offence under Western Australian criminal law."

"Then that, in the Opposition's view, in my view, in the view of Julie Bishop ... that is a breach of the commercial laws of Western Australia – that is section 43 of the Association's Incorporation Act – but it is also a breach of section 170 of the Criminal Code.

If that were the end of the matter, it would be enough but there is more because the Workplace Reform Association didn't just solicit contributions from individual members of the Australian Workers Union, it also solicited contributions from external contributors."

"I'm saying that, on the documentary evidence and her
own admissions, there appears to me, and appears to the Opposition, to have been a breach of the criminal and commercial laws of Western Australia – of the Criminal Code, section 170 in particular, and of the Association's Incorporation Act."

Heydon Report
Para 103 contains some brave assumptions by Commissioner Heydon about Gillard's perceptions;
"There is no doubt the Application and the Certificate contain little else but false and misleading statements.
However, it is very doubtful whether Julia Gillard could be said to have prepared or lodged the Application or Certificate.
All she did was place two pieces of information on the Application in her handwriting.
The first piece of information, 'Australian Workers' Union - Workplace Reform Association' was false or misleading in two respects.
One was that it suggested that the purpose of the Association was workplace reform, when it was not - but she did not know that.
The other was the name falsely suggested a connection with the AWU - but not to her perception and hence not to her knowledge.
The second piece of information placed on the Application by Julia Gillard was 'Section 4(1)(e) of the Act'. It was false or misleading, but not as far as she knew."

Para 104. "Julia Gillard did prepare and submit to the Commissioner a letter of 13 May 1992, but since it is lost.....",
H/B. Peter Gordon confirms the letter and that as at 11 September 1995 it was on the AWU - WRA file Gillard had opened but kept secret from her employers for over three years. The last known location was at Slater & Gordon.

There is no record of the file ever having been produced to assist authorities with any of the known AWU, WA and Victorian Police Fraud Squad or any other investigations. Current Managing Director of the ASX listed Slater & Gordon not only claimed in 2012 that it was "missing", but also claimed the firm had never held it.

"It is impossible to say whether it contained any false or omitted something without which the document was misleading."

H/B. On the contrary, it omitted the vital fact that no association existed. In Para 88, Commissioner Heydon acknowledged this:

" There is no record of any communication advising him of this divergence from reality, even though Julia Gillard at the time of giving evidence, at least, was conscious of it."

H/B. You will find similar opinions on this site from QC's and other lawyers as to whether Gillard should face charges and surely you'd agree the only proper place to determine the truth is in court.

Sorry Pegasus, but I think that Poggi may once again be at play in your mind. Let's do have that Salamanca coffee soon and we'll discuss it further.

Cheers H/B

Yes Pegasus. I understood you didn't say the 'soup up' was to an extent it would be outside the law. The thing is here in this court of public opinion there is enough information and documents available to convince me that Gillard did assist /conspire with her boyfriend Bruce Wilson and Ralph Blewitt to create the AWU/WRA Inc. In this court of public opinion what has been published by Michael Smith is enough for people to consider and pass their judgement. I expect many if not all of us would like to see Gillard, Wilson and Blewitt charged and taken before a court in another place, sooner rather than later. Where evidence based proof can be tested. Just like it was for Craig Thomson, Michael Williamson, and soon Kathy Jackson. But even after she has her time in court. Gillard will still remain a lying shonky cheat, in my opinion! But then thats just politics Pegasus. Edward James from the Dolls House

It just occurred to me Margaret I got a bill for the ride of my life in an ambulance last month, 61 kilometers five hundred and sixty dollars. That is probably more than Ralph's return ticket.