I've just listened to Emerson on Lateline vehemently denying that Gillard had anything to do with the incorporation of the fund, other than offering advice as Gillard had said. Won't he feel a right twit tomorrow.
My ultimate contribution to this sordid saga
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4524025...-shed-no-light-watergate-tape-gap-grand-jury/
"It's Nixon being Nixon," historian Stanley Kutler said after his initial review found no bombshells. "It's a virtuoso performance. How about $10 for every time he says, I don't recall?"
..Nixon's memory lapses were frequent when he was grilled about whether he used the Internal Revenue Service to pursue his political opponents, which would be illegal. Yet he gave credence to a theory that he had done just that with Democratic donors..
..Historians certainly did not expect the transcript to solve the mystery of the 18 1/2 minute gap. Investigators suspected the portion of the June 20, 1972, subpoenaed tape was erased to hide incriminating talk between Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, three days after the break-in at the Watergate complex..
..Even without the tape, investigators learned enough of Nixon's machinations in the cover-up to bring him to the brink of impeachment. Fellow Republican lawmakers finally abandoned him, leaving him little choice but to resign...
Amid dramatic claims that the Prime Minister had acted corruptly and Coalition demands for her resignation, this morning the opposition rushed into Parliament to move a suspension of standing orders.
The suspension, one assumed, would be to demand the Prime Minister resign, or to call a vote of no confidence to test the Prime Minister's support, or at least demand she front the chamber and explain herself. It turned out to be to:
"... enable this Parliament to take action to deny people smugglers a product to sell before the Parliament rises and the onset of the monsoon season ..."
So with claims of "smoking guns"* and the most serious accusations that can be made in Australian politics, the opposition preferred to chase monsoons rather than do what you'd expect they'd do if they had a skerrick of belief in what they were alleging about the PM.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/po...tradicts-pm-20121128-2aegm.html#ixzz2Dai6yg93Julia Gillard enabled the incorporation of a union slush fund from which her then boyfriend later stole hundreds of thousands of dollars by formally denying to authorities that it was a trade union organisation.
Kevin Rudd's been very quiet this week.Mean while but where the adults analyse politics
Bernard Keane from Crikey
Kevin Rudd's been very quiet this week.
Perhaps he's been busy taking calls from his Labor colleagues begging him to resume the leadership and from Wayne Swan begging for forgiveness.
DOCUMENTS allegedly sent by Prime Minister Julia Gillard to Western Australia's Commissioner for Corporate Affairs 20 years ago relating to the AWU affair may never have been archived by the State Records Office (SRO).
I'm sure Kevin Rudd's still behind her.I think Abbott's desperation running the smear campaign will enhance Gillards status and lower his own particularly after the smoking gun shot Bishop in the mouth.......I mean foot.
Certainly some of the most tasteless behaviour by an opposition that I have seen before.
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