Persisting demands for serious attention to the involvement of the PM and others in trade union scandals.
Larry Pickering is on the case as well.
From Larry Pickering’s Facebook, dated July 30.
Apart from having the sort of head you’d never get tired of kicking, AWU boss Paul Howes’ record of protecting workers’ interests is abysmal.
Police can’t act without a complaint and there are no complaints coming from Howes or the HSU East’s Williamson. It is no secret as to why.
When someone like the HSU East’s Kathy Jackson files a complaint, Bill Shorten shuts her down by placing the union in administration. Anyway, Craig Thomson is nothing but a small fish among schools of sharks in an ongoing feeding frenzy.
Howes’ union crony and co-Rudd assassin, Bill Shorten, does nothing either. (Except to plead it’s an isolated case.) In fact, he goes to extreme lengths to obfuscate the blatant theft.
Left wing law firms have become union savvy and unions have become Left wing law firm savvy. Paul Howes, makes no effort to recover those stolen members’ funds. I wonder why. The Gillard Government is a creation of corrupt unions, is stacked with ex-unionists (more than 50 of them) and protected by corrupt union bosses. The people who could bring down this corrupt Government (Craig Thomson, Doug McClelland and Ian Cambridge) have either been dumped or promoted to the union controlled FWA.
Oakeshott and Windsor will not walk the plank for the sake of this nation.
As an official of the ARU I quickly learnt the modus operandi of major unions. It wasn’t pretty then… it’s grotesquely ugly now.
The silence is deafening from the Left wing law firm, Slater & Gordon, as accusations continue to fly from credible sources. It seems strange that a law firm would not immediately sue or at least take out an injunction against its accusers. Well, here you go boys, I’ll make it easy for you.
Then a number of potentially defamatory claims, followed by a challenge.
Is that enough boys, or should I go on? Come on, it’s not that hard, surely. Sue me! You’re a law firm aren’t you? You can even give yourself mates’ rates. There are more than 250,000 people who will see this article via blogs, 10,000 viral emails, Facebook, “The Pickering Post” and its Facebook. God knows how many they will share it with! I notice you have bumped up your TV advertisements to convince people of your newfound “ethics”. Are you feeling the pinch? Waste of money I’d say. Oh, unless it’s not yours. What is it you say, “No Win, No Fee”? Well, you won’t win this one, so you’re home free. You can’t really lose can you? Oh, yes you bloody can… and you know it!
You are a disgrace and menace to the industrial law you espouse, the people you represent and to the legal profession in general. Come clean or come get me, you thieving, degenerate shysters!
Great – and in the meantime this disgusting circus blunders on, wreaking havoc on the country at every available opportunity.
juliar dullard is a common criminal.
Could you imagine this matter laying doggo if it were liberal or national pollies?
This vile harridan is the prime minister, FFS!
We have become a corrupt tinpot third world joke thanks to these loathsome, bottom feeding shitheads.
Enough.
Rabz
4 Aug 12 at 10:29 am
Pickering – Harsh but fair.
Carpe Jugulum
4 Aug 12 at 10:34 am
Refreshingly forthright I’d say! I really do suspect that Larry doesn’t like them very much. If Slater & Gordon don’t “hit back” you would have to wonder what they want to hide.
Fred Furkenburger
4 Aug 12 at 10:43 am
IF and I repeat IF the Police and a DPP had sufficient evidence, would they dare arrest a federal politician and charge them?
Mike of Marion
4 Aug 12 at 11:02 am
under partnership law, its possible for the actions of one partner to give rise to liability for all the partners. a million dollars compounded over 20 years can add up.
larrikin
4 Aug 12 at 11:04 am
Would they be prepared to arrest the PM!?
Poor Old Rafe
4 Aug 12 at 11:13 am
Oh Yes! thank you Mr Pickering for saying what many of us have thought for a long time; that S &G were not a force for good in society. And it’s encouraging to many of us that , have a position centre stage, that you can say what many of us believe.
I wonder that 50 years hence we will say “Is it true that we allowed such a corrupt administration to exist?” and ” how could we have allowed them to try and close down our right to free speech?”
I’m simply amazed that so many of the Briefs employed to do the socialists bidding are of Jewish extraction; some from the orthodox arm, no less. Of ALL the people, you would expect Jews to be the most ardent supports of Free Speech; it was the lack of a free press that led to the Nazi persecuion of the Jew, Gypsies and dissidents in pre War II Germany.
The counties where Free Speech is being challenged most (England, Canada and Australia) lost 600,000 young men and women to defeat the Axis; sadly not soon enough to save 6 million jews, but nonetheless the outcome resulted in the birth of Israel. You’d have thought that a little gratitude would be forthcoming from the Jewish community, and much more support for the Freedom of the Media.
Phil E Steyn
4 Aug 12 at 11:17 am
The Wilson bloke must have though julia G was very arresting at the time.
candy
4 Aug 12 at 11:20 am
Unions were established to help employees against the all-powerful employer now the employees need protection from the unions.
stackja
4 Aug 12 at 11:55 am
It wouldn’t even have to directly involve a LNP pollie. AWB or Howard’s father’s garage come to mind…
ar
4 Aug 12 at 1:07 pm
My heartfelt wish is to see the AFP march into Federal Parliament and drag Gillard out in handcuffs.
A suitable charge can be arranged later.
Eddystone
4 Aug 12 at 1:08 pm
I’d settle for an election…
ar
4 Aug 12 at 1:17 pm
Of course. They do that in PNG quite a bit so it can be done. And Rudd suggested our leadership situation is like PNG’s so the alternative Labor PM would have no problem with it.
Chris M
4 Aug 12 at 1:32 pm
This blog http://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/ claims credit for Pickerings claims.
Stephen Williams
4 Aug 12 at 1:32 pm
In the good ol days politicians were accountable for their misdeeds.
Mick Young (labor) – the paddington bear affair – lost his ministerial portfolio.
Michael McKellar (liberal) – the colour TV affair – lost his ministerial portfolio.
The common thread : faulty filling out of a Customs form, by their staffers in McKellar’s case.
The above issues look trivial in comparison to the last five years of the Liar’s party, yet ministers lost their jobs.
Nowadays, anything goes and nothing may be questioned, much less prosecuted.
Young actually later resigned over allegations of mishandling of campaign donations (he was later cleared).
Such decency has been consigned to the rubbish heap.
The prefix “the honourable” should be deleted from all MHRs until further notice.
Keith
4 Aug 12 at 1:50 pm
No “hounarable” with this lot, it is a matter of what they can get away with.
Mother G
4 Aug 12 at 1:59 pm
“You’d have thought that a little gratitude would be forthcoming from the Jewish community, and much more support for the Freedom of the Media.”
That’s hardly true. There are Jews on all sides of the political spectrum. All the Jews I know are ferociously to the right of the spectrum as it happens. The fact that Mordy etc have been involved simply reflects the high number of Jews in the legal profession. All of the people involved in this particular scandal are Gentiles but that hardly proves anything.
rob
4 Aug 12 at 2:30 pm
Abbott should bring in federal racketeering laws so that the unions and ALP are financially cleaned out. The union movement is a protection racket, pure and simple.
John Comnenus
4 Aug 12 at 3:01 pm
If I recall correctly Slater and Gordon refused to hand over the relevant conveyancing file (of the Kerr Street house) in one of the Industrial cases claiming client privilege
It seems to be acknowledged that Blewitt was the owner of that house so the file should be deliverable to him should he wish to claim it and if he gets the indemnity he seeks he may well wish to claim it
That would be interesting
val majkus
4 Aug 12 at 3:06 pm
All the police and relevant agencies will run away from this at light speed. The simple fix is that the police will not grant indemnity. No claims, no investigations, no charges. The police will always support Labor, especially in Victoria. No one will be talking to Blewitt. I will bet anyone that Gillard will never even be questioned about this, let alone charged. And furthermore the Libs will not launch a Royal Commission into this obvious and ongoing corruption.
Labor and the Unions are turning this country into a more corrupt country, aided and abetted by our regulatory agencies who won’t act in the national interest. To top it all off most of the media won’t investigate and nor will the LNP do anything about it when they get in. Then all these agencies wonder why the public has falling confidence in their ability and impartiality. Labor and the unions are destroying this country and everyone is too scared to say boo.
John Comnenus
4 Aug 12 at 3:23 pm
Fair Work Australia Thomson Investigation Royal Commission will clear this up once and for all.
H B Bear
4 Aug 12 at 3:29 pm
And give a second term Abbott government the fire-power to gut the ALP union funding and administration, emasculate whatever is left of Fair Work Australia and re-introduce individual contracts.
H B Bear
4 Aug 12 at 3:32 pm
By the way it should “From Pickering’s Facebook PAGE” not his ‘Facebook’. Just a small point. Otherwise you aren’t hip with the kids.
Rob
4 Aug 12 at 3:58 pm
Any police officer who dares to investigate an MP or union official over this matter will end up working the tick gate at Camooweal. No copper sees that as a good career move.
Sid Vicious
4 Aug 12 at 4:11 pm
Thanks Rob. I am not called poor old rafe for nothing you know!
Poor Old Rafe
4 Aug 12 at 4:11 pm
I don’t see why many people care about this, it’s a matter for the union members, if they keep pouring in money with out demanding more rigorous accounts, the clearly they are happy with the arrangement. Give them some bribes and have them support you in parliament.
Then it will become a matter for the voters. People are not as stupid as politicians think, everyone of these people is going to be slaughtered in the next election.
Mundi
4 Aug 12 at 4:35 pm
If laws have been broken, there should be prosecutions. Society should not and cannot tolerate illegal behaviour of this sort which corrupts the body politic. Perhaps, also, Union members and voters will be duped into supporting someone because of a cover up. Or the Union members have insufficient power to address the issue. That’s why we have laws and a DPP to prosecute criminals.
Samuel J
4 Aug 12 at 4:47 pm
I know some of these union members, mundi. They are ropeable about the theft of their money. And they are even more angry over the fact that they appear to be reasonably helpless to deal with the corruption.
People like yourself who think that this is of little consequence should try walking in their shoes for a bit.
Winston Smith
4 Aug 12 at 5:44 pm
Can someone explain why the police need to wait for a complaint? I thought our criminal laws were different to the US?
What happens if they found a body with multiple gunshot wounds? No complaint so no investigation? If there is suspicion that a crime might have been committed, aren’t they obliged to investigate?
Skuter
4 Aug 12 at 5:57 pm
Frankly, what I’d like to see is the Ranga marched out of Parliament in handcuffs. And that idiot fool Swan with her.
James P
4 Aug 12 at 9:15 pm
Mundi, if you did some of the things alleged in a listed company can you imagine the results, whether or not shareholders complained? Anyway a million of them could get angry to no effect depending how shareholdings are distributed.
In fact if I did a fraction of the things alleged in my itsy bitsy business I would be in massive trouble. I would be fined just for not renewing an ASIC registration. Has anyone there even been hit with say a fine for $200???
rob
4 Aug 12 at 9:17 pm
The thing that makes me proud to be an Australian is that we have standards and ethics in political life, unlike all those South East Asian countries with their corrupt politicians, yes sir.
Abu Chowdah
4 Aug 12 at 9:31 pm
Look at the symbols we use to detirmine 3rd world country status…
Then look in the mirror, Australia!
Little do the public know, we are actually fighting for our independance. Pitty the population likes being dependant.
While this remains the case? we will continue to see cronyism. Standard practice for the 3rd world.
Nick
4 Aug 12 at 9:51 pm