17-03-92 |
Locals concerned the Accident and Death Fund was being used to buy property and office equipment with the funds they paid into the fund. |
18-03-92 |
Boulder fund suspended |
15-05-92 |
Bruce Wilson and Julia Gillard go to a meeting with the miners in Kalgoorlie |
18-05-92 |
AWU announce it is taking over the fund at Boulder paper article |
13-02-93 |
Contract of sale signed by Bruce Wilson |
13-02-93 |
Purchase of 85 Kerr Street Fitzroy by Julia Gillard and B Wilson who attended the Auction |
13-02-93 |
blewitt-getting-his-addres.html Purchase of 85 Kerr Street Fitzroy by Julia Gillard and Bruce Wilson who attended the Auction |
15-02-93 |
Letter to Slater & Gordon about the 1/85 Kerr Street sale |
15-02-93 |
Ralph Blewitt is appointed Western Australian Branch Secretary in the week 15 to 19 February |
16-02-93 |
Olive Brosnan and Heidi chasing up the Power of Attorney - notes |
17-02-93 |
Olive Brosnan makes this further note regarding Heidi, a sales person with the Real Estate firm GA Thomson. Note that Heidi returns the call and says that she will let Olive Brosnan have the original Power of Attorney (when she gets it?) and will need a certified copy in return |
22-02-93 |
Slater and Gordon acknowledges that it has received the Contract of Sale, Section 32 Statement and the Power of Attorney from GA Thomson. |
23-02-93 |
Olive Brosnan certifies Power of Attorney |
3-03-93 |
A memo from Sylvia to Olive Brosnan about the application for the loan for Ralph Blewitt and the Kerr Street property |
4-03-93 |
Letter/fax from Hewitt & Company stating Ralph Blewitt Wages Ref VB/CS |
9-03-93 |
Memo to Olive Brosnan from Sylvia about the loan approval and the return of the chq for $500 from Ralph Blewitt’s personal account |
10-03-93 |
Letter from Slater & Gordon addressed to Ralph Blewitt explaining mortgage details Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 |
10-03-93 |
Memo Julia Gillard wants details of penalty interest rates |
12-03-93 |
Memo to Julia Gillard from Olive Brosnan about penalty interest rates |
17-03-93 |
Memo of fees for house - Bill of costs |
18-03-93 |
Letter to Ralph Blewitt requesting Cheque for $67,772.30 |
18-03-93 |
The cheque for $67,772.30 |
22-03-93 |
Settlement date for Kerr Street purchase |
23-03-93 |
Land Transfer document |
31-03-94 |
Dawesville project costs |
Aug-Sept 94 |
Julia Gillard went on holidays while Bruce Wilson organised house renovations |
Aug-Sept 94 |
Interview with Slater & Gordon about the Renovations |
6-02-95 |
New bank accounts for Construction Fund |
17-02-95 |
AWU-FIME amalgamate (2 Victorian Branches) |
12-04-95 |
Cheque from AWU WRAI account $46,550 |
27-04-95 |
Cheque for $15000 - $10 000 for K Spyridis and $5000 cash |
30-06-95 |
AWU went back to central funding arrangements |
25-07-95 |
Letter from Robert Smith (AWU) to Ian Cambridge and Steve Harrison about the unknown AWU bank accounts |
27-07-95 |
Letter to the National Executives about the freezing of the accounts |
2-08-95 |
Union National Finance committee meet to discuss what was going on start of investigations into the frozen accounts |
4-08-95 |
Bob Smith wrote to Ian Cambridge to say the AWU was going to charge Bruce Wilson |
10-08-95 |
Ian Cambridge visits QC Richard Kenzie from Maurice Blackburn for discussions to fix it (get union money back) |
14-08-95 |
Internal Review into Julia Gillard’s involvement of the AWU -WRA and she is put on restricted duties |
14/15 Aug 95 |
Other Joint secretaries of the Unions paid out the signatories of the accounts - hand writing on the cheques Link 1 Link 2 |
16-08-95 |
Bruce Wilson redundancy cheque $55,204 |
17-08-95 |
Letter to stop the cheques Ian Cambridge |
17/18 Aug 95 |
All accounts were closed bar 2 general and grants accounts and redundancies given out |
18-08-95 |
Affidavit - Bill Ludwig - Bruce Wilson get sprung |
11-09-95 |
Julia Gillard interviewed by Geoff Shaw, Peter Gordon and Nick Styant-Browne at Slater and Gordon - It’s recorded and she goes on leave of Absence until May 96 (WA AWU-WRA not yet discovered by AWU yet) |
31-01-96 |
Ian Cambridge addresses AWU Qld Branch meeting |
3-04-96 |
Ian Cambridge talked with Commonwealth Bank - Diary entry - Discovery of Workplace Reform Association INC. WA branch |
6-05-96 |
Discovery of Accounts in AWU name by Ian Cambridge letter from Commonwealth Bank |
7-05-96 |
Fax from Com bank listing the accounts in the AWU name - for Ian Cambridge |
1-06-96 |
Newspaper article about Joe Trio and the AWU fraud article from sometime in 1996 |
3-06-96 |
Ian Cambridge received bank records after the discussions with the bank back in April Ian Cambridge spoke to AWU Officials in Perth and they never heard of the Workplace Reform Association Inc. |
5-07-96 |
Diary entry Ian Cambridge - spoke to Branch Official Russell Frearson about the $400,000 going through the account |
31-07-96 |
Geoff Shaw Slater & Gordon General Manager gets Subpoena to supply all documents relating to purchase of 1/85 Kerr Street |
13-08-96 |
Court proceeding where Geoff Shaw is to produce the documents from the Subpeona Link 1, Link 2 |
6-01-97 |
Memo from Investigating Detective Dave McAlpine about the AWU fraud |
6-02-97 |
Memo to fraud squad from Theiss stating they hadn’t been defrauded Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
17-02-98 |
Memo fraud squad about Theiss - Ralph Blewitt said Theiss auditors required that the WRA needed to be Inc. |
Missed by that much, no wait wait!
Posted by: Bikinis not Burkas | Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 11:34 AM
Breaking News
The manager of a refugee centre in the city of Pau, south-west France, was killed on Friday in an attack allegedly carried out by a Sudanese migrant.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56130417
Posted by: Bikinis not Burkas | Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 11:36 AM
Incompetent idiots! Sack them all! (from the comfort of my armchair).
Posted by: Deano | Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 11:44 AM
That was well captured, albeit unintentional. Think can see debris in the air when back rotor hit the ship mast. Almost instant death. Would have loved to be in the nearby park to greet helicopter and take the piss.
Posted by: ShortWellah | Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 11:45 AM
A gust of wind at the wrong moment is all it takes.
Posted by: Dennis Thompson | Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 12:07 PM
Evil things.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-11/survivor-remembers-1996-black-hawk-tragedy/7497914
Posted by: underminder | Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 12:28 PM
That will be a very expensive repair. Black Hawk rotor blades don't come cheap, and luckily it held together till they got it into a local park.
Posted by: Glenn | Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 12:31 PM
Oh I don't know about that........I think it was one hell of a piece of flying after a mishap.........the consequences could have been more dire........lucky he was able to land in a park and not Sydney Harbour!!
I'll add him to the list of pilots I want if we have a problem while flying.........Chesley Sullenberger at the top......maybe he would have been able to land on the Harbour!!!
Posted by: louise | Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 12:36 PM
I don't think the board of inquiry will agree with your sentiments, Louise. (In fact, I'd be willing to bet a very large sum that they won't.)
While the ultimate responsibility always rests upon the captain of the aircraft (in this case, the pilot), much of the responsibility for maintaining clearance in such situations is on the crewman, (the bloke down the back).
Everyone on board the helo - and quite possibly on the ship as well - should be VERY thankful that he really ***ed up badly and gave that mast a good hard hit rather than just a glancing blow. In hitting it full on, he destroyed the weighted tips of all four rotor blades, thus sort of re-establishing some semblance of balance in the rotor disc. if he'd just barely clipped one blade and removed the tip of one, two or three of the blades, the out of balance would have been horrendous and almost certainly would have made the aircraft uncontrollable.
The old saying that any landing you walk away from is a good one applies, and he did well to get the beast onto the ground in one piece, but I am pretty sure he won't be receiving any congratulations from his peers and superiors- and no one will be extolling his flying skills. Sullenberger Mark 2 he definitely is NOT.
Posted by: Cliff | Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 05:25 PM
And Sully got the 'beast' into the water just right.....this helicopter pilot got the chopper back to a park.......not equal I know, but!!!!
I'd like to see those on the board of enquiry do better.........in Sulley's case, they couldn't!
Posted by: louise | Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 08:55 PM