| 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. |
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Such a waste of life.
Posted by: Hunter | Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 02:31 PM
This will happen again. Those that forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
Posted by: d | Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 02:43 PM
My Grandfather and Great grandfather served on Gallipoli, thence to the western front and came home. My two great uncles are still over their, buried in France and Belgium.
LEST WE FORGET.
Posted by: robert griffiths | Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 02:47 PM
Both my grandfathers served on the Western Front in WWI.
One, an Englishmen, was in the British Army and got through four years of the war unscathed as far as I know (although he found himself behind German lines once!), although he was standing next to his younger brother when the latter was killed by a piece of shrapnel in 1917.
He returned to Australia after the war (he was here in Victoria briefly before the war), and he died in 1978, nearly 85.
The other grandfather (in the Australian Army) was gassed in France, which was almost certainly a contributory factor to his early death, aged 57, in 1954, years before I was born.
Posted by: Not on the Left | Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 04:05 PM
Thankyou for posting Michael ,brought back some strong family memories .
Posted by: Enyaw | Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 04:15 PM
My grandmother's uncle was gassed on the Western Front, in 1917. He never recovered his health, had numerous stays in hospital until his death in 1941, and was so angry at the lack of treatment that he received that he returned his service medals in protest. Lest We Forget!
Posted by: ZK2A | Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 04:28 PM
Further Michael, It felt good for me (and thats ok) to mention the boys, sort of like I waved the flag for em. thanks to the heart felt posters.
Posted by: robert griffiths | Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 07:50 PM