Complexity is the crook's friend.
Julia Gillard cloaks herself in complexity around the heart of her
involvement in The AWU Scandal.
Then when an enquirer comes knocking with any error
(slush/trust) the error is treated as reason to debunk any further
investigation.
Mark Baker is a great journalist and he has produced some very
gutsy journalism but today he has made a howler of an error which
The Age must move quickly to correct.
He has a commentary piece about the slush fund with a nice pun
in the headline. In its paragraph 9 it states:
When national officials of the AWU finally uncovered the rorting of
the Workplace Reform Association, Gillard - who continues to
insist that she did nothing wrong and knew of no wrongdoing - was
confronted by the senior partners at Slater & Gordon about her
failure to brief them about the work she had done and her failure
to take advice within the firm about the work or to open a formal
file about it on their computer system.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/slush-fund-that-keeps-paying-out-20121116-29hia.html#ixzz2CQOJ2Gi8
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/slush-fund-that-keeps-paying-out-20121116-29hia.html#ixzz2CQOJ2Gi8
National officials (and local Victorian officials) did not know about the AWU-WRA until April 1996, 8 months after Gillard
was confronted with her own secret file hidden in a filing cabinet.
There will be no smoking gun in this matter in exactly the same way that a smoking gun does not teach algebra.
Imagine two children, one goes to a school that teaches algrebra, one does not.
After two years of study, the two children walk into a room with an algebra problem on the whiteboard.
"What do you see?" One says, "just symbols, like they use for swearing in a comic, there's an = sign in the middle,
doesn't look like anything really."
The other solves the problem and explains what it means.
If you've been with this blog since August you will have seen a daily exposition of documents, pages of documents,
individual paragraphs and exquisitely well informed comment from the army of distinguished legal, accountancy,
commercial and law enforcement people who have so freely given of their expertise.
It is a formidable body of information and I am very proud of it.
It's important that we correct errors where we see them - this one is very important because it's the centre of Julia Gillard
misleading the parliament.
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