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. |
Never were truer words written!!
Posted by: Julie of Geelong | Monday, 31 January 2022 at 05:59 PM
Those words should be written in big letters on the gates of every illegal immigrant detention centre.
Posted by: Steve K | Monday, 31 January 2022 at 06:10 PM
That's where the whiny ex-actress from New York was born. Small world!
Posted by: underminder | Monday, 31 January 2022 at 06:31 PM
Can we borrow this sign with one small modification? Substitute AUSTRALIA for FLORIDA.
Posted by: Geoff Williams | Monday, 31 January 2022 at 06:39 PM
You're two years too bloody late son!!
Posted by: CountryBumpkin | Monday, 31 January 2022 at 07:11 PM
I did read a good quote just now..
"When it is obvious that the goals can not be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps".. Confucius
With that "Expect powerful change" as we shift this energy.. hold the vision of the outcome you wish but keep going and meet each challenge as it appears, you don't know what you don't know, until it hits your awareness their will be signs that the angels will send down when you ask for them and are clear and come from the heart, like magic the answers will appear.. in fact I do believe you already have them.. what was it you were calling to manifest as it feels like soul is in that wave like motion of emotions ..love and light xx
Posted by: Michelle Two | Monday, 31 January 2022 at 07:13 PM
Julie, I remember here in Australia a while back there used to be a saying that said ... Fit in or F*ck Off". I think that, that is more straightforward but off course we were called racists at the time.
Posted by: Maree | Monday, 31 January 2022 at 07:29 PM
Florida seems the ideal place to be!
Posted by: Denise | Monday, 31 January 2022 at 07:49 PM
Steve,
This has been around a while and the sentiments are those of many of us.
I figure they are better targetted to migrants, particularly those from a certain religious background, that have come to Australia with the objective of trying to make our country like the shiteholes that they have left. I refer to some intellectual lightweight politicians who think that they know more than the people to whom they are servants.
I am more than happy to open the door so they can leave and the sooner the better.
Posted by: Geoffrey of Perth | Monday, 31 January 2022 at 10:14 PM
We need to turn the clock back instead.
Posted by: Val | Monday, 31 January 2022 at 10:39 PM
It is not unusual for people who go from one place to another to live, to want somethings to be like their old place - I have seen it many times over the years. I belonged for many years to an Ex-Pat site over here, called Mates Up Over & a lot of the Aussies on there wanted the US to be just like the Australia that they left & they were pretty darn vocal about it.
They also remembered Australia with Rose Colored Glasses, they whined about not going home, but they never seemed to be able to either - meanwhile I did go back almost annually & we did go back to live for a few years.
For my part, people here in the US have always treated me very well - I was afforded many opportunities & training in the workplace over the years, on the other hand, we did come across some anti-American rhetoric in a couple of places in Australia, that made me feel unwelcome.
Rockhampton was the worst & Yeppoon not too far behind. My husband applied to CQU in 2005, to study, using his GI Bill, but was turned down in an email, in which the person stated that it was not possible to use that means of funding.
He already knew it was acceptable, because he had looked at going to Sippy Downs.
He replied to the email & sent it to the Writer’s Boss & various other people at CQU - his application was approved - had absolutely nothing to do with the writer being of Middle Eastern extraction. Sensitive times!
At one point his teacher asked to meet my husband for coffee in town in Yeppoon to talk about his degree. She brought her child & while they were having coffee, she asked my husband if he would mind if she fed it.
Anyway she flopped out her boob & fed the kid, then swapped it over to the other side & my husband didn’t know where to look. He said that he thought she was going to give the kid some baby food. She always signed her emails - With warmest Regards.
Anyway my husband sat an exam - he was studying diligently & went so far to go online & research all the latest information & legislation & included that in his answers. They marked him wrong & when he pointed out that that was the latest legislation - they agreed that it was, but told him that he had to stick to what was in the book. Then they told him that he had to write a letter to dispute it, but said that it was unlikely to be overturned.
We found out that the people who were marking exam papers were usually people who had just graduated.
We didn’t find the AntI-American sentiment in Brisbane, or on the Sunshine Coast - people seemed to accept us more readily, but I was the person who got fed up with the BS on the Capricorn Coast & suggested that we go back to the US - I just got tired of it in the public realm.
Posted by: Kureelpa | Tuesday, 01 February 2022 at 12:29 AM
Denise .. the place does not matter ..with respect ..it's the LEADERSHIP that makes the difference !
Posted by: Enyaw | Tuesday, 01 February 2022 at 09:01 AM
Unfortunately,they won't take the hint and F*^#^ off.The only way to stop this nonsense is to vote these ass-whipes out.For the last 50 or so years they have been feeding us BS at EVERY election.Put the lib/nats and leibor/greens out come the next election.
Posted by: jelly34 | Tuesday, 01 February 2022 at 09:26 AM