WHAT A CUNNING STUNT?
Well done, Julia. No, seriously, I mean that. Shot me down in flames you did. I really felt like crawling under a rock after that impromptu performance.
That was so brilliantly cunning to pounce on a typo in “The Australian” in order to pull on a Press conference claiming defamation of all things. What was the typo, “trust” instead of “slush”, was it?
It was really good the way you gave absolutely no notice to the Press who were so obviously caught on the hop. No time for Editors to tell correspondents what they wanted asked! Wow, only two questions of any substance and you dodged them so beautifully.
I was impressed the way you praised the Press as being the cream of the country’s journalists. Golly, only two tired old Lefties, Grattan and Bongiorno plus a few snotty nosed cadets were present.
Not one of the Press actually knew what to ask. They don’t know the background to this. Brilliant Jules!
So, as a tired ol’ newspaperman, could I humbly ask you to answer, just specially for me, the following, (I promise I won't tell anyone):
1. You said yesterday that you paid for your renovations. Why then did you previously say you couldn’t be certain that you did?
2. You said you believed it was “slush fund”. As an industrial Lawyer did you seriously not know a “slush fund” could in no way be an Association?
3. If you believed it was a “slush fund” why did you print on the Application Form that its intended role was to facilitate “worker safety and training”?
4. Is it true that the four people present in the room when you drew up this document were yourself, Ralph Blewitt, Bruce Wilson and Senior Equity Partner, Bernard Murphy?
5. An Association requires, by law, to have at least five members. Who did you nominate?
6. When you drew up a power of attorney for your friend Bruce Wilson to act for Ralph Blewitt, why did you not inform Mr Blewitt of the mortgage, now in his name, subsequent to going to buy the house with Mr Wilson?
7. When conducting the firm’s conveyancing (again pro bono) for the purchase and sale of the Kerr Street house, did you take note of where the money was coming from and going to?
8. Why were the Association, the bank account, the purchase and sale of the house and the mortgage kept secret from the AWU.
9. How could the purchase of a house be consistent with either a “slush fund” or “worker safety and training”?
10. Why did you attempt to deliberately mislead the WA Commissioner for Corporate Affairs when setting up this Association?
11. Why did you not inform your firm’s boss or your firm’s client, the AWU, of any of your actions?
12. Do you agree it is your handwriting on the fraudulent form?
13. When the AWU discovered the fraud, why did that union’s boss, Ian Cambridge, immediately sack Slater & Gordon and call for a Royal Commission?
14. Why were you asked, by your employer, for a taped interview?
15. After you were dismissed why did you not renew your Practising Certificate? Did you beieve you would be unable to practise again?
16. Why is the six months subsequent to your dismissal missing from your CV?
17. Why did your boss, Styant-Browne say, and I quote: "...the company took a very serious view of these and other matters and accepted her resignation"?
18. What did Mr Styant-Browne mean by, “...a serious view of these and other matters?
19. Is Mr Styant-Browne, or Mr Gordon correct?
20 Why was Senior Equity Partner Bernard Murphy asked to make a settlement and leave at the same time as yourself?
21 When your ex-Attorney General Rob McClelland stated in Parliament, “...a third party may have benefitted from...”, was this “third party” he referred to, you?
22 What did you mean by, “I was treated shabbily”, when you were asked to leave the firm?
23 You refuse to make a statement in the House. Is it true you realise it would be illegal to lie when so doing?
24 And finally Ms Gillard, how can you profess to be a champion of the working class when you have clearly been complicit, with your boyfriend, in stealing their money?
Well done, Julia. No, seriously, I mean that. Shot me down in flames you did. I really felt like crawling under a rock after that impromptu performance.
That was so brilliantly cunning to pounce on a typo in “The Australian” in order to pull on a Press conference claiming defamation of all things. What was the typo, “trust” instead of “slush”, was it?
It was really good the way you gave absolutely no notice to the Press who were so obviously caught on the hop. No time for Editors to tell correspondents what they wanted asked! Wow, only two questions of any substance and you dodged them so beautifully.
I was impressed the way you praised the Press as being the cream of the country’s journalists. Golly, only two tired old Lefties, Grattan and Bongiorno plus a few snotty nosed cadets were present.
Not one of the Press actually knew what to ask. They don’t know the background to this. Brilliant Jules!
So, as a tired ol’ newspaperman, could I humbly ask you to answer, just specially for me, the following, (I promise I won't tell anyone):
1. You said yesterday that you paid for your renovations. Why then did you previously say you couldn’t be certain that you did?
2. You said you believed it was “slush fund”. As an industrial Lawyer did you seriously not know a “slush fund” could in no way be an Association?
3. If you believed it was a “slush fund” why did you print on the Application Form that its intended role was to facilitate “worker safety and training”?
4. Is it true that the four people present in the room when you drew up this document were yourself, Ralph Blewitt, Bruce Wilson and Senior Equity Partner, Bernard Murphy?
5. An Association requires, by law, to have at least five members. Who did you nominate?
6. When you drew up a power of attorney for your friend Bruce Wilson to act for Ralph Blewitt, why did you not inform Mr Blewitt of the mortgage, now in his name, subsequent to going to buy the house with Mr Wilson?
7. When conducting the firm’s conveyancing (again pro bono) for the purchase and sale of the Kerr Street house, did you take note of where the money was coming from and going to?
8. Why were the Association, the bank account, the purchase and sale of the house and the mortgage kept secret from the AWU.
9. How could the purchase of a house be consistent with either a “slush fund” or “worker safety and training”?
10. Why did you attempt to deliberately mislead the WA Commissioner for Corporate Affairs when setting up this Association?
11. Why did you not inform your firm’s boss or your firm’s client, the AWU, of any of your actions?
12. Do you agree it is your handwriting on the fraudulent form?
13. When the AWU discovered the fraud, why did that union’s boss, Ian Cambridge, immediately sack Slater & Gordon and call for a Royal Commission?
14. Why were you asked, by your employer, for a taped interview?
15. After you were dismissed why did you not renew your Practising Certificate? Did you beieve you would be unable to practise again?
16. Why is the six months subsequent to your dismissal missing from your CV?
17. Why did your boss, Styant-Browne say, and I quote: "...the company took a very serious view of these and other matters and accepted her resignation"?
18. What did Mr Styant-Browne mean by, “...a serious view of these and other matters?
19. Is Mr Styant-Browne, or Mr Gordon correct?
20 Why was Senior Equity Partner Bernard Murphy asked to make a settlement and leave at the same time as yourself?
21 When your ex-Attorney General Rob McClelland stated in Parliament, “...a third party may have benefitted from...”, was this “third party” he referred to, you?
22 What did you mean by, “I was treated shabbily”, when you were asked to leave the firm?
23 You refuse to make a statement in the House. Is it true you realise it would be illegal to lie when so doing?
24 And finally Ms Gillard, how can you profess to be a champion of the working class when you have clearly been complicit, with your boyfriend, in stealing their money?
