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Remember when Gillard was considered competent?

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Written by Sinclair Davidson

August 20th, 2012 at 5:58 pm

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I want to know why her parents left Wales. I’ll bet they were quite content until Jools darkened the nursery.

Infidel Tiger

20 Aug 12 at 6:10 pm
Sorry can’t help, I’ve tried but can’t remember.

Old Fridgie

20 Aug 12 at 6:13 pm
Nope, me either.

Cato the Elder

20 Aug 12 at 6:15 pm
She fooled so many including me.

I remember thinking in 2004 that Labor were mad choosing Latham and they should have been progressive and chosen Gillard.

Medicare Gold was the first sign.

JamesK

20 Aug 12 at 6:17 pm
Remember when Gillard was considered competent?

No.

C.L.

20 Aug 12 at 6:18 pm
Give us a clue!

Daisy

20 Aug 12 at 6:19 pm
As probably reported on the dead rhinoceros thread, the latest Essential poll is out.

Abbott’s lead has widened to 14 points.

C.L.

20 Aug 12 at 6:20 pm
I’ll take that as a question without notice.

dover_beach

20 Aug 12 at 6:21 pm
Remember when Gillard was considered competent?

Sinc, are you okay today?

JC

20 Aug 12 at 6:24 pm
Dunno if this has been put before, but here are another couple of questions for Gillard:

Gillard set up the Workplace Reform Association for Wilson and she herself wrote the rules which included that no member of the AWU could personally benefit from the association. She was present at the auction when Wilson bid for the house and her company – Slater and Gordon – helped pay the mortgage.

Q: How could she not know that Wilson was breaking association rules?

The AWU became aware of the association only when a builder working on Gillard’s house, sent the bill to the AWU.

Q: Why did a builder renovating the house of a Slater and Gordon lawyer send a bill to the AWU?

jupes

20 Aug 12 at 6:24 pm
Gillard was competent? In a parallel universe, perhaps.

nilk

20 Aug 12 at 6:26 pm
Oh wow. Pickering’s latest cartoon is brilliant.

Some of his stuff is marginal – the price of being prolific. But that one sums up everything you need to know about this disgusting ‘government’ and its supporters.

C.L.

20 Aug 12 at 6:28 pm
Remember when Gillard was considered competent?

She still is at Fairfax and the ABC.

jupes

20 Aug 12 at 6:28 pm
Q: Why did a builder renovating the house of a Slater and Gordon lawyer send a bill to the AWU?

They made a mistake with the address, Jupes.

The house was in Kerr Street Fitzroy and the AWU address is Spencer Street West Melbourne.

That sort of error could happen to anyone. You can easily confuse Kerr Street with Spencer street. Fitzroy and West Melbourne are almost identical in written format although they sound the same when spoken.

JC

20 Aug 12 at 6:30 pm
I wonder if the Creeper Thompson threat of self harm will make entrance to the stage this time round?

I give it to the end of the week before one of those idiots brings it up.

JC

20 Aug 12 at 6:34 pm
When you are in a room with Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan you have a big head-start.

I wonder how much of this cluster-fuck Tanner actually saw coming?

H B Bear

20 Aug 12 at 6:37 pm
Define “competent” in the context of your question.

Obio

20 Aug 12 at 6:40 pm
The trolls are strangely quite.

Rudiau

20 Aug 12 at 6:44 pm
Remember when Gillard was considered competent?

No you are lying Snic.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 6:49 pm
Gratton: When were you last considered competent Prime Minister?

PM: Michelle, that was 17 years ago and I’ve answered that question many times before. It’s on the public record. I’ve got far weightier matters to consider like the brilliant plan I’ve just thought of to stop asylum seekers.

Gratton ( curtsying): Thank you Prime Minister.

GrantB

20 Aug 12 at 6:51 pm
But GrantB, will Grattan kiss her ring?

WhaleHunt Fun

20 Aug 12 at 6:58 pm
Remember when Gillard was considered competent?

By whom? And do I think they’re competent?

Keith

20 Aug 12 at 7:00 pm
CL – You’ll have to link to LP’s latest. His blog is down because of a million monkeys typing naughty scripts or something. He says on Facebook:

pickeringpost.com has been consistently attacked via a DDoS for the past few days. We are now getting a “suspended” notice.

Some of us don’t respond well to criticism…we are doing all we can to persist with free speech. Those who aren’t on the email list can go to lpickering.net (until they get at that site too)

Nope, that url is down too. Maybe Mordy done it.

Bruce

20 Aug 12 at 7:00 pm
Sorry, spoke too soon, pp is up.

Bruce

20 Aug 12 at 7:07 pm
I can say with absolute honesty I never thought it. The whole competence thing was a construct and at best was relative. The only one that had half a clue was Tanner and that is being kind and I am probably seeing through rose coloured glasses since he pissed off as quick as he could from the train wreck.

I said when she rolled KRudd we would come to realise he was the brains of their operation and that should scare the shit out of us. Shame to be right inthis instance.

Mark

20 Aug 12 at 7:09 pm
I think she was as Deputy PM. But stealing her boss’s job, whe wasn’t ready, and bad karma attached.

But perhaps all good PM’s come from a hefty trial in opposition first, to get the hang of things.

candy

20 Aug 12 at 7:10 pm
I do not know about time in opposition. A few days working in the real world might help. Somehow working in a Labor law firm doing law work for union people who are suspected of taking union funds for inappropriate purposes is not the real world experience needed. She needs to start again, at McDonalds, if they would have her.

WhaleHunt Fun

20 Aug 12 at 7:14 pm
but …

I’ve done nothing wrong

maybe that takes a special type of competence (or incompetence as the case may be)

val majkus

20 Aug 12 at 7:26 pm
I give up. When?

kae

20 Aug 12 at 7:29 pm
Define “competent”.

boy on a bike

20 Aug 12 at 7:31 pm
Nope, that url is down too. Maybe Mordy done it.

No TnFl, plz.

As some of us have discussed before, there are several logical reasons for his cheaply-hosted site to go down or be suspended other than State intervention.

If he truly is getting hit by serial DDOS attacks, there are ways to be more protective about that (some hints via WattsUpWithThat). But it could also just be the increased traffic, or other TOS-related issues with his hosting company.

Sorry, I’m not really aiming this at you, Bruce, since you’re not at all one of the serial hysterics. But his fans’ constant screeching of DISSENT SILENCED!!!!111!!! on Twitter and other blogs (and I presume on Facebook – I don’t do FB) is getting… screechy.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 7:41 pm
LarryP is on FB only and as of a few minutes ago is deeply pissed off with Michael Pascoe (who he – ed?)

GrantB

20 Aug 12 at 7:48 pm
LarryP is on FB only and as of a few minutes ago is deeply pissed off with Michael Pascoe (who he – ed?)

GrantB

20 Aug 12 at 7:48 pm
Sorry, at pub on iphone. Too difficult to do the FB link as well.

GrantB

20 Aug 12 at 7:52 pm
GrantB, Michael Pascoe is a so called journalist and economics commentator and first class wanker.

Eyrie

20 Aug 12 at 7:55 pm
Gillard and competant should never be used in the same sentence.

Carpe Jugulum

20 Aug 12 at 7:55 pm
OK. I give up.
I’ll play your silly bloody game.
When was Gillard considered competent?

Winston Smith

20 Aug 12 at 7:58 pm
Remember when Andrew Bolt went into raptures over her, portraying her as some sort of left-wing Thatcher?

Poor fella bet he regrets that…

MDMConnell

20 Aug 12 at 8:00 pm
I suspect Gillard and competence parted ways when she left Wales. I mean how incompetent do you have to be to get caught in a Union scam in a Union friendly law firm? FFS. The Honchos at Slater and Gordon must stare into their single malt and mutter the same incomprehensible thought: how the fuck did SHE EVER BECOME PM?

John Comnenus

20 Aug 12 at 8:08 pm
Given their press release today, they should be renamed Slapper & Gordon.

Gab

20 Aug 12 at 8:09 pm
Remember when Andrew Bolt went into raptures over her, portraying her as some sort of left-wing Thatcher?

Ugh.

My passion for Julia

Why Gillard is the conservatives’ pin-up. For now

Column – Why the Right loves this lady of the Left

Do you reckon he was just deliberately trolling his own blog for comments & hits, maybe?

It was supremely icky, whatever the case.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 8:10 pm
Spot

are you having problems accessing twitter?

Gab

20 Aug 12 at 8:11 pm
I suspect Gillard and competence parted ways when she left Wales. I don’t think the two have gotten any closer since then. I mean she couldnt even organize a union rort in a union friendly law firm FFS!

This evening, as pressure mounts, the Honchos will state vacantly into their crystal tumblers of 20 year old single malt whiskey and ask: How the fuck did SHE EVER BECOME PM!

John Comnenus

20 Aug 12 at 8:11 pm
Bolt has serially catastrophic judgement, like most in the media tend to do.

The difference with him is he isn’t afraid to change his mind, and doesn’t ever back losing horses.

brc

20 Aug 12 at 8:17 pm
Spot

are you having problems accessing twitter?

No. Just put out my little #auspol highlights thingy about 20 minutes ago.

?

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 8:18 pm
Spot

are you having problems accessing twitter?

No. Just put out my little #auspol highlights thingy about 20 minutes ago.
http://paper.li/s_dog/aussiesontheright-ozcot

?

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 8:19 pm
Remember when Peter Patton was assuring everyone here that Gillard was going to be the next Maggie Thatcher?

He needs to be publicly tarred and feathered and flogged on his arse 100 times with a whip just for that,

jtfsoon

20 Aug 12 at 8:19 pm
Well then it must be my end. Your twitter address appears in the search bar but the page is blank below it.

Gab

20 Aug 12 at 8:20 pm
On 2nd thoughts he’s probably enjoy that ….

jtfsoon

20 Aug 12 at 8:22 pm
Remember when Peter Patton was assuring everyone here that Gillard was going to be the next Maggie Thatcher?

Oh yea. And that she was a conservative to boot.

Patton, you need to answer charges of gross comment negligence and brazen gullibility.

JC

20 Aug 12 at 8:23 pm
Bolt has serially catastrophic judgement, like most in the media tend to do.

Those three suck-up pieces alone scored him more than 500 comments.

So I guess it depends on what game he’s playing with his blog. It he was going for bit hits and high comment counts, his judgement was spot on.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 8:23 pm
Your twitter address appears in the search bar but the page is blank below it.

Boo. S’working for me. Coming up on 8,000 followers soon

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 8:26 pm
“She has the mouth of Paul Keating, but the eyes of Megan Gale, and the one just enhances the other. ”

A. Bolt said that?

candy

20 Aug 12 at 8:38 pm
“Remember when Julia was considered competent?”

When was that?
Apparently it wasn’t during her exit interview at Ambulance Chaser Central.

Leigh Lowe

20 Aug 12 at 8:41 pm
Are all Union Leaders crooks?
Or just most of them?

Leigh Lowe

20 Aug 12 at 8:44 pm
To be absolutely fair to all involved, the most anyone had seen of Gillard was when she was attacking people in parliament.

The days of being told to her face she was a liar by members of the general public were yet to come. Her clumsy handling of public appearances hadn’t happened yet. She hadn’t yet done a barefaced lie to the camera. All these things were yet to come.

At the time I think people were just happy to be rid of Rudd the megalomaniac and the programmatic-specifities of his leadership. Gillard probably seemed sane in comparison.

It’s funny though, when the political eulogies are written, Rudd is actually going to come out much better off in comparison. And the status of Gough will be raised any further.

Nobody believed the warnings about Labor being fiscally reckless incompetent administrators with no clues of their own. Well, yet another generation of Australians has learnt that incompetence is Labor DNA.

brc

20 Aug 12 at 8:47 pm
Just on 7 news break that JG probably only has a few weeks. Colleagues not impressed with her handling of questions about her past.

Flood gates might be slowly opening!

Biota

20 Aug 12 at 8:50 pm
Indeed, it seems she’s long had a school-marmish insistence on standards, which always appeals so thrillingly to conservatives.

She’s revealed that even as a solicitor at Labor law firm Slater and Gordon two decades ago she was a stickler for good grammar and spelling, making her staff chant: “One cat’s hat, two cats’ hats, where do the apostrophes go?”

As she told her biographer, Jacqueline Kent: “If I got a letter with it done wrong I would draw a cat with a hat at the bottom, in the hope it would come back right the next time.”

No deep-sigh Leftist, that.

Bloody hell.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 8:50 pm
Peter Patton, you have a lot to answer for!

Fisky

20 Aug 12 at 8:51 pm
When she is gone the smell of her “competence” will linger. Labor will take a while to regain public confidence. Probably days before the gullible fools flock back to the next “competent” saviour

WhaleHunt Fun

20 Aug 12 at 8:53 pm
Are there any current members of Catallaxy who backed the infamous double of Obama ’08, Gillard ’10?

That’s an automatic public execution, burial in unmarked grave crime.

Infidel Tiger

20 Aug 12 at 8:54 pm
Andrew Bolt may also have something to feel sheepish about.

blogstrop

20 Aug 12 at 8:54 pm
She has the mouth of Paul Keating, but the eyes of Megan Gale, and the one just enhances the other.

Yeah, no. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 8:57 pm
@whalehunt I will go so far as to venture that the next Labor PM isn’t in parliament yet.

brc

20 Aug 12 at 8:58 pm
You see what I mean with those fawning Gillard pieces?

No amount of pageviews is worth dribbling that tripe. I remember reading it at the time and going ‘oh, come one, give it a rest’.

brc

20 Aug 12 at 8:59 pm
Your vision, brc, of a blessed and shining Labor-leader-free parliament brings light to these dark fays

WhaleHunt Fun

20 Aug 12 at 9:01 pm
Your vision, brc, of a blessed and shining Labor-leader-free parliament brings light to these dark days

WhaleHunt Fun

20 Aug 12 at 9:01 pm
Andrew Bolt may also have something to feel sheepish about.

Bolt’s been at the forefront of criticising Gillard. You’re all making out like he’s been one of her biggest boosters when the opposite is true.

dd

20 Aug 12 at 9:02 pm
Indeed, it seems she’s long had a school-marmish insistence on standards, which always appeals so thrillingly to conservatives.

She’s revealed that even as a solicitor at Labor law firm Slater and Gordon two decades ago she was a stickler for good grammar and spelling, making her staff chant: “One cat’s hat, two cats’ hats, where do the apostrophes go?”

As she told her biographer, Jacqueline Kent: “If I got a letter with it done wrong I would draw a cat with a hat at the bottom, in the hope it would come back right the next time.”

So, reading that again… what does that say about her “accidental inadvertence” to start a file for her lover’s union scam?

She was too busy drawing fucking cats on fucking legal correspondence to get around to it?

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 9:03 pm
And speaking of “the f-verb”, how do we reconcile this claimed “school-marmish insistence on standards, which always appeals so thrillingly to conservatives” with all the married men she was gettin’ busy with?

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 9:04 pm
Bolt’s not the messiah DD. Sometimes – especially when it’s come to Gillard – he’s been a very naughty boy.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 9:06 pm
don’t miss the latest Michael Smith youtube
interviewed by David Flint
I left the link on open forum (today’s date)
very elucidating

val majkus

20 Aug 12 at 9:06 pm
It’s true Ms Gillard had a lot of goodwill from the public and journalists etc as deputy PM.

candy

20 Aug 12 at 9:14 pm
Here is the David Flint – Michael Smith interview link again. (thanks val)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_BGGuYJIbg

In summary, Gillard signed off on the articles of association saying that the fake AWU body, headed up by her boyfriend, would promote “workplace change” and other vague goals. But then she admitted when questioned by her S&G partners in 1995 that it was a “union slush fund”.

So she deceived the WA corporate commissioner by helping her boyfriend set up an association on grounds that she later admitted were false. She also didn’t bother to find out if this was a bone fide AWU body. And a few weeks after setting up this sham body, she attended the house auction with her boyfriend, who wrote a cheque from the AWU slush fund to buy it.

Of course, she “didn’t know” what was going on.

Fisky

20 Aug 12 at 9:16 pm
DD
Bolt was a booster at the start. I too was briefly taken in by his and Patton’s crap. Where is that anti-Papist obsessive? he should come here and take his punishment

jtfsoon

20 Aug 12 at 9:18 pm
but … i did nothing wrong

val majkus

20 Aug 12 at 9:18 pm
So she deceived the WA corporate commissioner by helping her boyfriend set up an association on grounds that she later admitted were false. She also didn’t bother to find out if this was a bone fide AWU body. And a few weeks after setting up this sham body, she attended the house auction with her boyfriend, who wrote a cheque from the AWU slush fund to buy it.

Of course, she “didn’t know” what was going on.

She was too damn busy drawing cats on her colleagues’ legal files, Fisky.

And bonking ol’ whatsisname.

There’s only so much a girl can do.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 9:21 pm
Please tell me you do not mean she was doing the two things at the same time? What was she drawing them on?
No NO NO! please do not say

WhaleHunt Fun

20 Aug 12 at 9:24 pm
PARTNERS in law firms who undertake work for clients without opening a file are embarking on a course of action that could cause friction with their partners.

Senior law firm partners have warned that unless files are opened on new matters the risk-management procedures used by most law firms can be bypassed—potentially exposing other partners to damages claims.

This could also result in the loss of major clients because most firms usually had strict protocols in place that prevented files being opened until a search had confirmed there was no conflict of interest, they said.

These consequences have been outlined by partners at several firms … after it was revealed in The Weekend Australian that Julia Gillard left law firm Slater & Gordon 17 years ago after the firm learned she had undertaken work without opening a file. Ms Gillard, a salaried partner at the time, left the firm after an internal investigation into that work, which was undertaken for her then boyfriend Bruce Wilson, a union boss accused of corruption.

The Prime Minister repeatedly has denied that she was involved in any wrongdoing.

But, CATS! She drew lots of lovely CATS!

She’s revealed that even as a solicitor at Labor law firm Slater and Gordon two decades ago she was a stickler for good grammar and spelling, making her staff chant: “One cat’s hat, two cats’ hats, where do the apostrophes go?”

As she told her biographer, Jacqueline Kent: “If I got a letter with it done wrong I would draw a cat with a hat at the bottom, in the hope it would come back right the next time.”

And we all love her.

So that’s all right then.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 9:28 pm
Val, I watched it. It’s devastating and should get the widest possible coverage. Head post, Catallaxy, Bolt, Blair etc. Even Prof Quiggan might give it a run. Crikey, the Drum, who knows?

GrantB

20 Aug 12 at 9:29 pm
sorry – linky for the first blocktext

the cats were distracting me

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 9:29 pm
she was a stickler for good grammar and spelling,

pity her talents don’t extend to the tricky art of pronunciation.

#hyperbowl #taliband etc.

Gab

20 Aug 12 at 9:30 pm
Unbelievably Mark Latham is defending Gillard to the hilt on Sky.

Infidel Tiger

20 Aug 12 at 9:31 pm
Are there any current members of Catallaxy who backed the infamous double of Obama ’08, Gillard ’10?

That’s an automatic public execution, burial in unmarked grave crime.

Indeed. But what of those that manfully resisted the zeitgeist?

dover_beach

20 Aug 12 at 9:32 pm
Unbelievably Mark Latham is defending Gillard to the hilt on Sky.

Maybe he thinks there’s a chance he can be called upon to lead the ALP again.

Makes sense

JamesK

20 Aug 12 at 9:33 pm
members of Catallaxy

Members – No.

Catallaxy trolls – Yes

JamesK

20 Aug 12 at 9:34 pm
Are there any current members of Catallaxy who backed the infamous double of Obama ’08, Gillard ’10?

I didn’t exactly back Obama in 08 but I wasn’t too upset about him either. I thought maybe America’s time for a black President had come, and closed my eyes to the leftish nature of it all. Mea culpa, but I’ve never claimed to really follow American politics anyway.

I was living in the UK for some months during the Gillard take-over and thus had only a limited local view of what it was about. But I was so unable to comprehend why anyone voted for Kevin Rudd, never a ‘lite’ conservative, let alone why the still-socialist Gillard should suddenly take over. I’ve always thought she was a total lightweight, still entranced with a completely juvenile leftist vision of policy, and Rudd a clone of David Brent (of The Office fame). Both absolutely skin-crawlingly awful.

Plus leftish feminist women who pitch at and run off with other people’s husbands leaving the wife alone with young children do not play well with me; nor do the men concerned.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

20 Aug 12 at 9:35 pm
What was she drawing them on?

Oh dear God – My eyes, they burn.

Carpe Jugulum

20 Aug 12 at 9:35 pm
Indeed. But what of those that manfully resisted the zeitgeist?

They get to man the gallows.

Infidel Tiger

20 Aug 12 at 9:36 pm
She was seen as a competent Acting Prime Minister because she kept her head when Rudd was clearly going off his in a big way. And so we all looked forward to seeing what would happen if by some incredible chance she supplanted him.

And then she did.

Whoa boy, was that ever the biggest shock!

perturbed

20 Aug 12 at 9:36 pm
If she’s such a fucking anal retentive about grammer, what does she make of the spoken word; hyperbowl, inedible, taliband etc

Meeow perhaps.

GrantB

20 Aug 12 at 9:41 pm
They get to man the gallows.

Ah! You’re a man’s man, IT. We’ll have to draw lots for this duty as they’ll be a few of us. CL will, of course, exercise his conscience in the matter and abjure.

dover_beach

20 Aug 12 at 9:41 pm
There will also be plum overseas appointments: Cultural Attache to Nigella Lawson being one.

Infidel Tiger

20 Aug 12 at 9:45 pm
Ok grammar. pub, iphone

GrantB

20 Aug 12 at 9:46 pm
Bolt was a booster at the start. I too was briefly taken in by his and Patton’s crap. Where is that anti-Papist obsessive? he should come here and take his punishment

I recall how he gave me shit about being critical of the lying slapper too. He went hog wild abusive towards me because I didn’t understand she was a conservative.

He also went berserk after I was critical of that idiot Clover Moore too.

Patton, you need to show up here now! and answer these charges to a jury of your peers. Think of us as a grand jury.

JC

20 Aug 12 at 9:47 pm
“Person”the gallows perhaps?

WhaleHunt Fun

20 Aug 12 at 9:49 pm
Cultural Attache to Nigella Lawson

I’d be content with being her kitchenhand.

dover_beach

20 Aug 12 at 9:52 pm
Ms Gillard is not gone. She’s not budging. She has the support of her Party.

candy

20 Aug 12 at 9:53 pm
She was seen as a competent Acting Prime Minister because she kept her head when Rudd was clearly going off his in a big way

Dude, has Patton bitten you on the neck and causing you to become a luvvie lover. She basically advised Rudd to ramp up the shit about da global warming scare. He got so worked up about it, the moron took an entourage of 300 hangers on with him to Copey. No one there bought that swill and he came back empty handed. The Slapper with Shane Wand then advised him to can the biggest moral challenge of our time. The punters thought he was nuts after that and she then knifed the idiot in back. There’s nothing competent about the the slapper. We all weren’t focusing on her at the time as we had another moron to watch over. Rudd.

JC

20 Aug 12 at 9:54 pm
Why is it that I could see that Gillard was useless but Bolt couldn’t? Truly, many of the Bolt readers could see she was faulty before she was elevated in the Peter Principle manner.

kae

20 Aug 12 at 9:57 pm
And these be the cream of the Labor crop…. what dangers lurk in the dark behind them?

WhaleHunt Fun

20 Aug 12 at 9:58 pm
Why is it that I could see that Gillard was useless but Bolt couldn’t?

The clingiest of the OH ANDREW YOUR HAIR LOOKED SO SHINY TODAY AND WHAT A HANDSOME SHIRT! blue-haired Boltoids completely swallowed his “Margaret Thatcher With Megan Gale’s Eye’s” emissions.

#IDKY.

Also, I know. Icky.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 10:09 pm
I wish I had one a them “coolsmirk” emoticons to insert here – I’m feeling positively Boltillian now.

SPOT, LEAVE BOLT AND HIS COMMENTERS ALOOOOONE!

I know, OK. Shutting up now.

~INSERT COOL ZIPPERMOUTH EMOTICON HERE~

No really. I know.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 10:13 pm
Who is the fat blonde bimbo on Q&A? She’s making Doug Cameron look like Richard Feynman.

GrantB

20 Aug 12 at 10:13 pm
They don’t call Gillard the Teflon Lady for nothing.

Teflon wears off and real stuff starts to stick. As it will.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

20 Aug 12 at 10:17 pm
Bolta’s infatuation with Gillard seemed to date from some trip she made to Israel. Bolta met her there, or something, and came back singing her praises.

I seem to recall that prior to that he had been more ambivalent toward her owing to her being a part of the kitchen cabinet that gave us the batts fiasco, the BER etc. She must have talked a good game.

Aqualung

20 Aug 12 at 10:32 pm
Fortunately, those Bolt pages record my dissenting view with respect to Gillard. (phew)

Keith

20 Aug 12 at 10:40 pm
Sometimes a hundred rockets in a day or even more land in Israel. So much chance and still we lost out. what were the Palestinians thinking?
What did we do to so offend them.

WhaleHunt Fun

20 Aug 12 at 10:42 pm
Bolta met her there, or something, and came back singing her praises.

Might could be he was impressed by her, um, –> =^..^=

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 10:43 pm
CATS. Another mentally unstable lady who loves cats.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 10:48 pm
Ahem. Poll Bludger is reporting:

James J relates that Newspoll has Labor up further on a surprisingly strong result a fortnight ago: the Coalition’s two-party preferred lead is down from 54-46 to 53-47, and the primary votes are 35% for Labor (up two), 45% for the Coalition (steady) and 11% for the Greens (up one).

So, only a 3% shift from the Coalition side and we are back to 50/50.

mOnty and I snigger and sleep easy tonight.

steve from brisbane

20 Aug 12 at 10:56 pm
mOnty and I snigger and sleep easy tonight.

So if it went the other way it would have kept you up all night?

You’re an imbecile, Step.

JC

20 Aug 12 at 10:58 pm
Despite this, Julia Gillard’s personal ratings have weakened still further, her approval down two points to 27% and disapproval up one to 60%, while Tony Abbott continues what seems to be a steady upward trend over recent months: his approval is up two to 34% and his disapproval is down two to 54%. And on another counter-intuitive note, the latest poll nonetheless has Julia Gillard drawing level on preferred prime minister at 38% apiece, compared with a 38-36 lead for Abbott last time.

Something weird is going on. It’s like the voters have factored her imminent incarceration into their decision.

Infidel Tiger

20 Aug 12 at 11:02 pm
mOnty and I snigger and sleep easy tonight.

Geez, mate. This is why teh ghey thing makes so many people uncomfortable. No one wants to know what y’all get up to in the privacy of your own bedroom.

NO ONE.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 11:03 pm
Should we pop SfB’s bubble by telling him it’s a Murdoch conspiracy to prop up Gillard….or let him dream his happy (wet) dreams for one more night??

MDMConnell

20 Aug 12 at 11:11 pm
members of Catallaxy

You make it sound like a secret society.

dd

20 Aug 12 at 11:12 pm
Newspoll assisted Gillard’s survival in February with their rescheduled poll. Now another fortuitous poll. It’s like Newspoll wants to keep her in place so that she can inflict maximum damage on the Liar’s party.

Keith

20 Aug 12 at 11:13 pm
I’m praying she holds on just a little longer, if only so that we can see the crowning glory that is the public destruction of both Gillard and Obama in the same week – Gillard in Parliament and Obama at the polls.

Or would people rather wait until the fallout from the one’s just desserts has settled before the other gets theirs?

perturbed

20 Aug 12 at 11:16 pm
Sorry – I just want her gone. The sooner the better.

Viva

20 Aug 12 at 11:17 pm
the primary votes are 35% for Labor(up two), 45% for the Coalition (steady)

the Coalition’s two-party preferred lead is down from 54-46 to 53-47 [and Labor/Greens two-party preferred #fail is still under 50%]

mOnty and I snigger and sleep easy tonight.

This thread is titled “Remember When Gillard Was Considered Competent?”

Well that would have been when primary votes for Labor were higher than 35% and 2PP was higher than 47%, yeah?

Steve & Monty Mixalot: Baby Got BACK!

Whatevs, kids. LOL.

sdog

20 Aug 12 at 11:29 pm
over 90% on Sky News Poll want Gillard to answer some questions …

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

20 Aug 12 at 11:29 pm
over 90% on Sky News Poll want Gillard to answer some questions …

“Non story”, “nobody cares”

-SfB and m0nty

twostix

20 Aug 12 at 11:39 pm
sdog: Greens preferences (and the Green vote is absolutely stuck on at least 10%) are never going to go back to the Coalition. You may as well just add that on to the Labor vote.

steve from brisbane

20 Aug 12 at 11:44 pm
Except that over 20% of Greens preference flow to the Coalition, as anyone paying attention already knows.

benson

20 Aug 12 at 11:55 pm
Gillard was the author of Medicare Gold. That alone marked her as a policy flake, and a dangerously dumb one at that. It seemed that her primary area of expertise was politics. Who’d have thunk she’d suck at that too…

Lloydww

20 Aug 12 at 11:58 pm
Unbelievably Mark Latham is defending Gillard to the hilt on Sky.

Excellent. A very influencial man indeed.

Boris

21 Aug 12 at 12:12 am
As was the case after Rudd scuttled back to QLD, there will be a rush of journalists telling us that they knew Gillard was incompetent, stupid, corrupt and unethical all along. And as with their rapid change of perspective on Rudd, not one of them will be held accountable in any meaningful way. They’ll simply slide into boosting the next Labor leader and expect people to keep on taking them seriously.

Hanyu

21 Aug 12 at 12:28 am
Confirmed:

Law firm Slater & Gordon’s axe over PM Julia Gillard.

MANAGERS at law firm Slater & Gordon considered sacking Julia Gillard during a 1995 secret internal investigation into alleged fraud committed by her then-boyfriend and Australian Workers Union boss Bruce Wilson.

According to a leaked statement from then-partner at the firm Peter Gordon, published today in The Australian, Ms Gillard’s relationship with the firm’s management had “fractured, and trust and confidence evaporated”.

The remarkable statement, drafted last week, described the fallout of the discovery of Ms Gillard’s legal involvement in setting up the AWU Workplace Reform Association, which was allegedly used by her boyfriend to misappropriate hundreds of thousands of dollars intended for the union…

The new statement from Mr Gordon discloses the partnership considered “terminating” Ms Gillard after considering whether she was knowingly involved in fraud, but determined not to because it was inherently unlikely. “Nevertheless, the partnership was extremely unhappy with Ms Gillard considering that proper vigilance had not been observed and that (her) duties of utmost good faith to (her) partners especially as to timely disclosure had not been met.”

“Ms Gillard elected to resign and we accepted her resignation without discussion.”

SACKED.

C.L.

21 Aug 12 at 12:28 am
Ms Gillard’s relationship with the firm’s management had “fractured, and trust and confidence evaporated”.

Kinda like ground hog hey?

JC

21 Aug 12 at 12:31 am
I did not ever contemplate that the world’s only publicly listed law firm, Slater & Gordon, would spin the facts of her departure to the market in the way that it did yesterday so as to protect the Prime Minister’s position.”

Well golly gee gosh, I guess it’s just darn lucky some of us aren’t that gullible.

So the Australian’s editorial warning shot to S&G yesterday was founded.

Gab

21 Aug 12 at 12:35 am
How and why the fuck is a statement known to have been “drafted last week” described as having been “leaked”?

What, his secretary pinched it or something?

C.L.

21 Aug 12 at 12:37 am
If they’re going to roll her they have to go more then 12 months out from the election, or the replacement won’t get the retirement benefits from being PM when it is over for them. So expect the knifing before the end of October.

Tim

21 Aug 12 at 12:37 am
The ironic thing is that this poll from Newsweek could actually make her position worse not better.

If you’re a backbencher sitting in a marginal seat you see the polls improving and the slapper getting body slammed over the wilson thing, you begin to think… well with the right leadership we could actually win the next election and it may be worth taking the risk to get rid of her.

JC

21 Aug 12 at 12:42 am
Peter Gordon’s “draft statement in full.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/gillard-under-fire-we-gave-her-the-benefit-of-the-doubt/story-fn59niix-1226454518031

Note: Gordon and Gillard hang out occasionally at the football.

Gab

21 Aug 12 at 1:01 am
Hedley Thomas exclusive up at The Australian.

Gordon’s statement brings new player into the frame who was also investigated:

2.) Ms Gillard (as did (name redacted)) strongly and consistently denied that they had any knowledge of wrongdoings now alleged before July 1995, and strongly denied any participation in any alleged wrongdoing at all times;

3.) In the years which followed their departure from Slater & Gordon, both (name redacted) and Ms Gillard continued to strongly assert their innocence and ignorance of the relevant alleged wrongdoing and maintained that the firm’s treatment of them had been in the circumstances unfair.

Thomas: love media wilfully lying…

… the Gordon statement is in stark contrast to the official media statement on Sunday from Slater & Gordon.

The official statement, in the name of managing director Andrew Grech, was immediately endorsed by Ms Gillard’s office and some media outlets as a “clearance” of her. The statement, which was based on available records of Ms Gillard’s employment history with the firm, stated that she took a leave of absence in September 1995 to contest a Senate spot before resigning in May 1996.

C.L.

21 Aug 12 at 1:05 am
I have been told that the relevant Slater & Gordon files reveal that certain relevant ‘new’ information was made to (name redacted) in July 1995, and very shortly thereafter to Ms Gillard. No evidence in any of the firm’s records exists that information as to any matter which can incontrovertibly be described as wrongdoing was available to or known by either of them before this time. Shortly after this time, this ‘new’ information was passed on to the other partners. There was a small delay in the transmission of this information by (name redacted) to the rest of us which I interpreted as mediated only by the serious deterioration in our relationship and the mental strain under which he obviously labored at the time. When the information was conveyed to the other partners, the firm immediately ceased acting for the AWU, for Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt. The leadership of the AWU had passed at this time from Mr Wilson to a new administration which retained Maurice Blackburn. Both Maurice Blackburn and the new administration were aware of the relevant allegations and was to our satisfaction, in a position to protect the union’s interests insofar as those interests may have been affected.

Pretty obvious who “name redacted” is given it’s common knowledge two lawyers left the firm. Both of whom have been elevated to positions of importance in this country. One of which elevated to the Prime Minister’s office.

Gab

21 Aug 12 at 1:08 am
arrrrgh…”One of whom was elevated…”

Gab

21 Aug 12 at 1:10 am
Thomas: Slater & Gordon tried to monster Styant-Browne…

Mr Styant-Browne said that external lawyers for Slater & Gordon had written to him yesterday seeking his silence on the matters, and requesting a transcript of a tape-recorded interview that the firm did with Ms Gillard on September 11, 1995, as part of its probe.

Thomas story headline:

Gillard under fire: ‘We gave her the benefit of the doubt’.

Now there’s a glowing professional endorsement.

C.L.

21 Aug 12 at 1:10 am
Well Pickering has been insinuating that (name redacted) was Bernard Murphy.

Cold-Hands

21 Aug 12 at 1:22 am
Thomas says negotiations with Gordon broke down during preparation of his report.

So that’s how he knows it was drafted last week.

But how can it be “leaked”?

This can only mean:

Gordon let them use it on the understanding that it would be described as leaked rather than official. (To protect himself).

C.L.

21 Aug 12 at 1:36 am
Mr Gordon must have been amazed years later to see REDACTED appointed as a federal court judge by Ms Gillard.

JamesK

21 Aug 12 at 1:41 am
Blewitt and Wilson are not going to be given indemnity from prosecution are they?

Gab

21 Aug 12 at 1:46 am
SLATER & Gordon, whose internal 1995 probe resulted in Julia Gillard leaving her job at the law firm, is now trying to gag a former equity partner after he disclosed secrets concealed for the past 17 years.

After speaking out in The Weekend Australian about the circumstances of Ms Gillard’s departure, Nick Styant-Browne received a legal letter yesterday from lawyers for Slater & Gordon and its former partner, Peter Gordon.

The letter to Mr Styant-Browne states: “These issues are serious and my clients and I genuinely hope that they can be resolved amicably, discreetly and quickly.”

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/slater-gordon-partners-turn-on-each-other-amid-gag-threat/story-fn59niix-1226454539666

Gab

21 Aug 12 at 1:48 am
The Firm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMmE8RLieiA

C.L.

21 Aug 12 at 1:49 am
“I am instructed that you are in possession of confidential documents that are and always have been the property of Slater & Gordon.

“Please send them to me electronically. If they are hard copy documents only, please send them to my business address and do not retain a copy of them.

“For example I am also instructed that you have retained a number of Slater & Gordon documents concerning its legal review of the AWU/Bruce Wilson matter in general, and a purported transcript of an interview with Julia Gillard in particular.

“Slater & Gordon has not authorised you to discuss its contents with any party. Slater & Gordon is concerned that you may inadvertently have used its documents and confidential information in talking to the media. Would you please ensure that you do not do so.

“Slater & Gordon is also concerned that you may inadvertently have discussed with others the confidential (and personal and private) information of former employees.

“Would you please ensure that you do not do so.”

Mr Styant-Browne told The Australian late yesterday: “When I made public certain of the matters surrounding Julia Gillard’s departure from Slater & Gordon, I was meticulous to ensure a balanced account of the facts was given. I did not ever contemplate that the world’s only publicly listed law firm, Slater & Gordon, would spin the facts of her departure to the market in the way that it did yesterday so as to protect the Prime Minister’s position.”

Gab

21 Aug 12 at 1:50 am
It’s becoming clearer why Gillard refuses to issue a statement clarifying matters despite the urgings of people like Warren Mundine.

Ivan Denisovich

21 Aug 12 at 1:51 am
Slater and Gordon get very angry and shouty with Styant-Browne

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/slater-gordon-partners-turn-on-each-other-amid-gag-threat/story-fn59niix-1226454539666

The legal letter he received from Leon Zwier of Melbourne firm Arnold Bloch Leibler asked him to “treat this letter as a confidential communication between us … Slater & Gordon is aware of recent media about the AWU/Bruce Wilson matter which attributes statements to you.

“I am instructed that you are in possession of confidential documents that are and always have been the property of Slater & Gordon.

“Please send them to me electronically. If they are hard copy documents only, please send them to my business address and do not retain a copy of them.

Ha ha ha! “Please keep this letter confidential, and absolutely do not ever dream of sending this to Hedley Thomas along with all the other stuff you’ve given him”.

Fisky

21 Aug 12 at 2:25 am
“Please keep this letter confidential, and absolutely do not ever dream of sending this to Hedley Thomas along with all the other stuff you’ve given him”.

LOL.

Sue! Sue! Sue!

Let’s unravel it all in court, Slater & Gordon.

Go!

C.L.

21 Aug 12 at 2:55 am
Styant-Browne should send a copy of the transcript to Bolt, Akerman and Thomas for safety and issue a press release warning that if any Labor/union zombies try to harm him in Seattle, everything will be released at once. But he should also say that he will publish one paragraph from the document every couple of days until the next election regardless of what they do, with a three paragraph penalty every time someone tries to contact him, or criticises him in the press.

Fisky

21 Aug 12 at 3:03 am
Seriously though. Hedley Thomas must be loving it. This is the highlight of his career, and it’s got a LONG way to go. Beats the hell out of Fatty Oakes leaking one of Howard’s budgets back in the 70s, which the Stenographers thought was the most amazing thing since Watergate.

But they didn’t notice the Canberra race riot (or follow it up) and they’ve barely bothered to report the Hedley Thomas leaks, except for yesterday’s pitiful effort to claim Gillard was “cleared”.

Fisky

21 Aug 12 at 3:08 am
The Labor Party have run Latham, Rudd and Gillard in three consecutive elections. The first had bipolar syndrome and anger management issues, the second was a psychopathic hater of human beings, and the last is a pathological liar.

These are the leaders that the Labor Party have recommended as thoroughly decent types who should be given full executive power. Clearly, there is something systematically wrong with the Labor Party for inflicting on us such dysfunctional and morally-tainted people, and it’s not at all obvious why they should be allowed to run candidates for future elections.

There are limits to our tolerance, and they must be enforced.

Fisky

21 Aug 12 at 3:41 am
What a marvelous week it’s been in Australian politics.

Abu Chowdah

21 Aug 12 at 4:00 am
Beautiful – there is a transcript under lock and key!

Kaboom

21 Aug 12 at 6:13 am
Goat rodeo. Y’all got any popcorn left?

sdog

21 Aug 12 at 6:38 am
Labor cabinet moves to get clean air as the stench of AWU/Wilson increases.

Splatacrobat

21 Aug 12 at 6:39 am
Mr Gordon must have been amazed years later to see REDACTED appointed as a federal court judge by Ms Gillard.

Yet he, and the rest of the S&G clan watched both careers progress, and none of them felt any duty to speak up at any stage in the last 17 years.

Keith

21 Aug 12 at 6:59 am
Hey Monty,
You spoke of weasel words, here you go :

While I was not close to Ms Gillard (and believe I had never met Mr Wilson), my association with her and my evaluation of her as a person led me to the view that this was inherently unlikely and not in her character.

Nevertheless, the partnership was extremely unhappy with both (name redacted) and Ms Gillard, considered that proper vigilance had not been observed and that their duties of utmost good faith to their partners especially as to timely disclosure had not been met. The partnership considered terminating (name redacted) and Ms Gillard. It is fair to say that (name redacted) and Ms Gillard also developed considerable antipathy towards the other partners and made their unhappiness clear as to what they saw as our failure to understand their position and to support them. It was clear the relationships had broken down irretrievably.

From Gordon’s letter.

Keith

21 Aug 12 at 7:05 am
When the information was conveyed to the other partners, the firm immediately ceased acting for the AWU, for Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt. The leadership of the AWU had passed at this time from Mr Wilson to a new administration which retained Maurice Blackburn. Both Maurice Blackburn and the new administration were aware of the relevant allegations and was to our satisfaction, in a position to protect the union’s interests insofar as those interests may have been affected.

I wish the timeline was a bit clearer here. But am I right in assuming that the leadership of the AWU had changed (with Wilson getting the boot); the new leadership uncovered what Wilson and Slater & Gordon had been up to; the AWU dumped Slater & Gordon and presumably at that point, the partners called in Gillard and asked “WTF?! Why have the AWU dumped us and gone to Maurice Blackburn?!” You know what lawyers are like with money – the partners would be most upset at losing a major client.

And then it all came out. It’s a bit hard to explain away a major client suddenly pulling the plug with no warning. It’s gotta be pretty serious for that to happen.

boy on a bike

21 Aug 12 at 7:42 am
Remember when Gillard was considered competent?

Hmmm……

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This is a trick question, isn’t it?

Mk50 of Brisbane

21 Aug 12 at 7:56 am
No mention of how the money was collected for this Union organisation?

kae

21 Aug 12 at 7:59 am
Gillard considered competent for comedic effect…

ar

21 Aug 12 at 8:10 am
What would have been S&G’s agenda in all this, going back to their discovery of Gillard’s role in the dodgy AWU association up until the present?

Would they have been taking a risk letting Gillard resign if she was effectively out of the law game and the AWU was going to stay quiet because they have an instinctive awareness that they are at all times probably guilty of something. And now S&G is trying to drum up business amongst the plebians and have likely made their association with the PM part of their image?

Aqualung

21 Aug 12 at 8:38 am
Labor apologist Jon Faine on ABC local radio (774 Melbourne) shrugged off the frontpage investigations in The Australian with a classic “nothing to see here”. But then he was a lefty lawyer who’s chummy with most of the principal players.

Cold-Hands

21 Aug 12 at 8:48 am
Seems to me the Gordon statement does pretty much end it. Acrimonious ends to legal partnerships are not exactly rare, and as I suspected, it appears that the view of the partners was not uniform.

Seems to me that the Australian and Hedley Thomas have been playing a “gotcha” game too; asking questions and hoping that Gillard will answer in ways inconsistent with what they already had.

In my view, she has been right not to engage in this.

steve from brisbane

21 Aug 12 at 9:03 am
I suppose S & G giving her the benefit of the doubt meant they deemed Ms Gillard incompetent but decided she was not knowingly guilty of fraud, so they did not press charges against her.

Time passes and her being PM helps their business, and they don’t want to look into the past, but Styant-Browne does. I wonder what his motive is, justice or fame or money or what.
It’s a serious stressful thing for him to do, I would think.

candy

21 Aug 12 at 9:27 am
Smith made a set of allegations against Gillard on air yesterday, and repeated them on youtube. Gillard’s futile attempts to ignore this issue, and her disastrous interview with Kelly on the weekend has resulted in further escalation. Wilkie has now called on Gillard to explain herself to Parliament.
Yeah, that non-engagement strategy is really working for her.

Keith

21 Aug 12 at 9:39 am
In my view, she has been right not to engage in this.

“You just keep thinkin’, ~~Butch~~ beta. That’s what you’re good at.”

JamesK

21 Aug 12 at 9:42 am
In my view, she has been right not to engage in this.

Nope, Richo is correct:

Former Labor senator Graham Richardson said last night Ms Gillard had “questions to answer” surrounding allegations that the Prime Minister didn’t create a legal file for Mr Wilson when he was a client.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/time-to-explain-wilkie-tells-pm/story-fn59niix-1226454517017

Ivan Denisovich

21 Aug 12 at 9:49 am
Pickering has broadened the attack and again he’s spot on:

THE FACELESS MEN AT WORK

The ALP Members we elected to Parliament actually didn’t know there was about to be a change in their leader and our Prime Minister. But the faceless men of the unions and the anointed Gillard knew long before.

Ensuing ALP jobs for unionists rained from heaven like manna.

But now there are restless and wounded men in Labor ranks and no-one hates like a dudded Labor man hates. The worm has turned and the time for the killer’s killing is nigh.

Union factions are again shuffling their cards. A new game is on, the stakes are high and someone just upped the ante with a Gillard scandal.

JamesK

21 Aug 12 at 10:24 am
Labor cabinet moves to get clean air as the stench of AWU/Wilson increases.

It’s hard to get clean air in the vicinity of a rotting dead rhinoceros.

C.L.

21 Aug 12 at 10:51 am
Here’s what we know…

Gillard’s association with criminals led her own colleagues to conclude that she was dodgier than Russ Hinze and sacked her via the old expedient of ‘allowing’ her to ‘resign.’

C.L.

21 Aug 12 at 10:54 am
I haven’t been able to get the Andrew Bolt blog up on either site this morning

JamesK

21 Aug 12 at 10:59 am
Perhaps Slater & Gordon (or Young & Naive, as Blair calls them) could tell us how many other times Gillard accidentally failed to open a file or any of the other ‘mistakes’ that enabled Bruce Wilson.

Aqualung

21 Aug 12 at 11:08 am
…other mistakes as enabled…

Aqualung

21 Aug 12 at 11:09 am
Seems to me that a poll showing Labor heading towards a competitive position has worked like a bucket of cold water over the normal histrionics in comments thread here.

steve from brisbane

21 Aug 12 at 11:52 am
A special telephone Morgan Poll on State voting intention conducted in July and August shows the L-NP ahead in Australia’s four largest States: NSW: L-NP (59.5%) cf. ALP (40.5%); Victoria: L-NP (53%) cf. ALP (47%); Queensland: LNP (59%) cf. ALP (41%) and Western Australia L-NP (60%) cf. ALP (40%) on a two-party preferred basis according to the telephone Morgan Poll conducted on the nights of August 7/8 & 13-15, 2012 and also on July 10/11, 2012 in Western Australia.

Sweet dreams, Steve.

However I do agree with you about this Gillard shit. Yes she’s a lying larcenist with the morals of an alley cat with a crack addiction, however the idea that her deplorable past behaviour will see her resign or dumped is a flight of fancy. If the rabid pock marked whoremonger Thomson can survive then anyone can survive. In about 400 days we can turf the redheaded usurper out on her enormous derriere and forget about this whole sordid mess.

Then we need a god damn Royal Commission into the union corruption that is eating away at this nation.

Infidel Tiger

21 Aug 12 at 12:03 pm
SteveFB – You should also comment now on the left leaning Essential poll from yesterday.

Flat as the Nullarbor. The accompanying poll on the carbon tax is especially interesting, since it suggests the few remaining ALP voters are even more credulous that Greens voters.

Bruce

21 Aug 12 at 12:35 pm
….histrionics in comments thread here.

Classic projection

Talking of histrionics Swan has barged into the discussion.

Let’s see now. Two contra-indicators in one day, agreeing that Gillard has done nothing wrong….hmmm….yep, Gillard should be in gaol.

Keith

21 Aug 12 at 12:40 pm
Classic projection

No, classic case of no self awareness.

steve from brisbane

21 Aug 12 at 12:45 pm
Slater and Gordon are the weak links here.
I think there may have been not one fileless transaction, but quite a few. Pro bono work doesn’t come cheap, you know.

We need to get the Law Society to investigate a bit closer. As well as the ASIC.
There are questions to be answered, and a smelly rhinoceros carcass to be lifted to see what it is hiding.

Winston Smith

21 Aug 12 at 12:58 pm
We need to get the Law Society to investigate a bit closer.

Peter Faris is on the job.

JamesK

21 Aug 12 at 1:01 pm
For goodness sake, Winston: profession oversight bodies have better things to do than investigate what went on about opening files in an solicitors firm with a completely different set of staff 18 years ago, and for which they have received no complaint from a client.

steve from brisbane

21 Aug 12 at 1:03 pm
I still can’t get either Andrew Bolt blog up.

I smell a rat.

JamesK

21 Aug 12 at 1:07 pm
Try this link James. Its Through the Courier Mail

Splatacrobat

21 Aug 12 at 1:11 pm
IT, you may be right – this is the old guard of the ALP seeking the removal of the Union parasite from its distal colon.
And before anyone says “You idiot Winston, the old guard of the ALP is the Union parasite.” I would say that the overlap between the two is not 100%, even though it is 80 – 90%.
I would also keep a close eye on the DLP.

Winston Smith

21 Aug 12 at 1:11 pm
Must be peculiar to me because that link doesn’t respond either Splat.

The other tele blogs work fine

JamesK

21 Aug 12 at 1:13 pm
No, classic case of no self awareness.

Right then, point at my “histrionics” please.

Keith

21 Aug 12 at 1:14 pm
Maybe you’ve been Finklesteined James?

Splatacrobat

21 Aug 12 at 1:16 pm
Maybe you’ve been Finklesteined James?

Who’s that bangin’ on the door?

JamesK

21 Aug 12 at 1:18 pm
The timeline here is the key:
1. builder sends invoice to AWU
2. AWU says WTF because it’s for Gillards house
3. BW gets the flick from AWU
4. AWU tells S&G to GFI
5. BW and JG split
6. S&G call JG in for a WTF session
7. JG turns out with receipts for building work
8. S&G interviews JG and Redacted and says ‘bye’
9. JG walks the plank.

Feel free to correct, insert, or add dates.

brc

21 Aug 12 at 1:45 pm
Prior to 1. JG advises purpose of the “association” was to make working conditions safer.
During 8. JG tells senior partners at S&G that the purpose of the “association’s” bank account was as a re-election slush fund.
Also somewhere in there BW pays deposit on house with a cheque from the “association”.
S&G furnish a loan to BW for the remainder of the house purchase, and provide free conveyancing and settlement services.

Keith

21 Aug 12 at 1:55 pm
Okay — it’s back up.

Who’d have thought an Andrew Bolt blog post titled:

Gillard is innocent!

I feel ashamed to admit I once felt she had questions to answer.

That nice man from the governemt got interwebs working for me.

Thank you Agent Smith.

JamesK

21 Aug 12 at 1:56 pm
@keith – the house purchase was before the timeline. The timeline was for when the excrement finally connected with the oscillating air movement device.

So, updated:
<0. Association created, house bought, renovations done
1. builder sends invoice to AWU
2. AWU says WTF because it’s for Gillards house
3. BW gets the flick from AWU
4. AWU tells S&G to GFI
5. BW and JG split
6. S&G call JG in for a WTF session.
6.1 JG says association is for slush fund
7. JG turns out with receipts for building work
8. S&G interviews JG and Redacted and says ‘bye’
9. JG walks the plank.

brc

21 Aug 12 at 2:00 pm
0.1 Association created by telling the WA Government body that it is a Workplace Safety fund
Further update:
0.0 Association created by lying to the WA Government body that it was set up for advancing workplace safety.

<0.1house bought, renovations done
1. builder sends invoice to AWU
2. AWU says WTF because it’s for Gillards house
3. BW gets the flick from AWU
4. AWU tells S&G to GFI
5. BW and JG split
6. S&G call JG in for a WTF session.
6.1 JG says association is for slush fund
7. JG turns out with receipts for building work
8. S&G interviews JG and Redacted and says ‘bye’
9. JG walks the plank.

JamesK

21 Aug 12 at 2:25 pm

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