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The NATO countries at a glance

Thursday, 24 February 2022

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Member countries[edit]

Member state	Capital	Accession^[2]	Population^[a]	Area^[4]
Albania	Tirana	1 April 2009	3,088,385	28,748 km² (11,100 sq mi)
Belgium	Brussels	24 August 1949^[b]	11,778,842	30,528 km² (11,787 sq mi)
Bulgaria	Sofia	29 March 2004	6,919,180	110,879 km² (42,811 sq mi)
Canada	Ottawa	24 August 1949^[b]	37,943,231	9,984,670 km² (3,855,103 sq mi)
Croatia	Zagreb	1 April 2009	4,208,973	56,594 km² (21,851 sq mi)
Czechia as the Czech Republic	Prague	12 March 1999	10,702,596	78,867 km² (30,451 sq mi)
Denmark	Copenhagen	24 August 1949^[b]	5,894,687	42,943 km² (16,580 sq mi)^[5]
Estonia	Tallinn	29 March 2004	1,220,042	45,228 km² (17,463 sq mi)
France	Paris	24 August 1949^[b]	68,084,217	643,427 km² (248,429 sq mi)
Germany^[c]	Berlin	8 May 1955	79,903,481	357,022 km² (137,847 sq mi)
Greece	Athens	18 February 1952	10,569,703	131,957 km² (50,949 sq mi)
Hungary	Budapest	12 March 1999	9,728,337	93,028 km² (35,918 sq mi)
Iceland	Reykjavík	24 August 1949^[b]	354,234	103,000 km² (39,769 sq mi)
Italy	Rome	24 August 1949^[b]	62,390,364	301,340 km² (116,348 sq mi)
Latvia	Riga	29 March 2004	1,862,687	64,589 km² (24,938 sq mi)
Lithuania	Vilnius	29 March 2004	2,711,566	65,300 km² (25,212 sq mi)
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	24 August 1949^[b]	639,589	2,586 km² (998 sq mi)
Montenegro	Podgorica	5 June 2017	607,414	13,812 km² (5,333 sq mi)
Netherlands	Amsterdam	24 August 1949^[b]	17,337,403	41,543 km² (16,040 sq mi)
North Macedonia	Skopje	27 March 2020	2,128,262^[d]	25,713 km² (9,928 sq mi)
Norway	Oslo	24 August 1949^[b]	5,509,591	323,802 km² (125,021 sq mi)
Poland	Warsaw	12 March 1999	38,185,913	312,685 km² (120,728 sq mi)
Portugal	Lisbon	24 August 1949^[b]	10,263,850	92,090 km² (35,556 sq mi)
Romania	Bucharest	29 March 2004	21,230,362	238,391 km² (92,043 sq mi)
Slovakia	Bratislava	29 March 2004	5,436,066	49,035 km² (18,933 sq mi)
Slovenia	Ljubljana	29 March 2004	2,102,106	20,273 km² (7,827 sq mi)
Spain	Madrid	30 May 1982	47,260,584	505,370 km² (195,124 sq mi)
Turkey	Ankara	18 February 1952	82,482,383	783,562 km² (302,535 sq mi)
United Kingdom	London	24 August 1949^[b]	67,081,000	243,610 km² (94,058 sq mi)
United States	Washington, D.C.	24 August 1949^[b]	334,998,398	9,833,520 km² (3,796,743 sq mi)

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Courtesy Wikipedia

Member countries[edit]

Member state	Capital	Accession^[2]	Population^[a]	Area^[4]
Albania	Tirana	1 April 2009	3,088,385	28,748 km² (11,100 sq mi)
Belgium	Brussels	24 August 1949^[b]	11,778,842	30,528 km² (11,787 sq mi)
Bulgaria	Sofia	29 March 2004	6,919,180	110,879 km² (42,811 sq mi)
Canada	Ottawa	24 August 1949^[b]	37,943,231	9,984,670 km² (3,855,103 sq mi)
Croatia	Zagreb	1 April 2009	4,208,973	56,594 km² (21,851 sq mi)
Czechia as the Czech Republic	Prague	12 March 1999	10,702,596	78,867 km² (30,451 sq mi)
Denmark	Copenhagen	24 August 1949^[b]	5,894,687	42,943 km² (16,580 sq mi)^[5]
Estonia	Tallinn	29 March 2004	1,220,042	45,228 km² (17,463 sq mi)
France	Paris	24 August 1949^[b]	68,084,217	643,427 km² (248,429 sq mi)
Germany^[c]	Berlin	8 May 1955	79,903,481	357,022 km² (137,847 sq mi)
Greece	Athens	18 February 1952	10,569,703	131,957 km² (50,949 sq mi)
Hungary	Budapest	12 March 1999	9,728,337	93,028 km² (35,918 sq mi)
Iceland	Reykjavík	24 August 1949^[b]	354,234	103,000 km² (39,769 sq mi)
Italy	Rome	24 August 1949^[b]	62,390,364	301,340 km² (116,348 sq mi)
Latvia	Riga	29 March 2004	1,862,687	64,589 km² (24,938 sq mi)
Lithuania	Vilnius	29 March 2004	2,711,566	65,300 km² (25,212 sq mi)
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	24 August 1949^[b]	639,589	2,586 km² (998 sq mi)
Montenegro	Podgorica	5 June 2017	607,414	13,812 km² (5,333 sq mi)
Netherlands	Amsterdam	24 August 1949^[b]	17,337,403	41,543 km² (16,040 sq mi)
North Macedonia	Skopje	27 March 2020	2,128,262^[d]	25,713 km² (9,928 sq mi)
Norway	Oslo	24 August 1949^[b]	5,509,591	323,802 km² (125,021 sq mi)
Poland	Warsaw	12 March 1999	38,185,913	312,685 km² (120,728 sq mi)
Portugal	Lisbon	24 August 1949^[b]	10,263,850	92,090 km² (35,556 sq mi)
Romania	Bucharest	29 March 2004	21,230,362	238,391 km² (92,043 sq mi)
Slovakia	Bratislava	29 March 2004	5,436,066	49,035 km² (18,933 sq mi)
Slovenia	Ljubljana	29 March 2004	2,102,106	20,273 km² (7,827 sq mi)
Spain	Madrid	30 May 1982	47,260,584	505,370 km² (195,124 sq mi)
Turkey	Ankara	18 February 1952	82,482,383	783,562 km² (302,535 sq mi)
United Kingdom	London	24 August 1949^[b]	67,081,000	243,610 km² (94,058 sq mi)
United States	Washington, D.C.	24 August 1949^[b]	334,998,398	9,833,520 km² (3,796,743 sq mi)

DATE	EVENT/DOCUMENT
1990	Julia Gillard becomes a Partner at Slater and Gordon and is in the Industrial Relations Department of law firm
20-08-91	Letter to Bruce Wilson from Julia Gillard concerning a vacancy at the AWU
1-05-91	Julia Gillard brought her property at 36 Phillip Street, Abbotsford Vic property settled in July and she borrowed $40,000 from Slater & Gordon for the deposit and the rest from Westpac bank
6-03-92	Advertisement appeared in the paper for Incorporating the Workplace Reform Association - Theiss may have used it for reference

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.