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He was having issues with that over the weekend.

On his site was an extract from the following article in The Australian.

VICTORIAN police have seized hundreds of union documents locked in a Perth storage unit that could provide important evidence for their investigation into the involvement of Julia Gillard’s former boyfriend in an alleged fraud.

The Australian Workers Union confirmed yesterday that Victorian police had executed search warrants for archives kept in the storage unit, and removed 12 boxes that could assist an investigation into former union official Bruce Wilson and the AWU Workplace Reform Association “slush fund”.

The revelation that potentially key evidence is in police hands comes in the same week that Tony Abbott announced the terms of reference for a wide-ranging royal commission into union corruption, including financial deals and bribes going back decades. It confirms how seriously Victorian police — who also travelled to Perth to interview former union boss Tim Daly about the contents of the boxes — are treating the Wilson case. The Wilson investigation is likely to continue as a parallel police operation separate from the royal commission.

Ms Gillard was a partner with Melbourne-based law firm Slater & Gordon in the early 1990s when she provided legal advice to hep set up the association for Mr Wilson, then her boyfriend. The former Labor prime minister later described the association as a “slush fund” for the re-election of union officials.

She has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, and said she knew nothing about the workings of the fund until serious allegations were raised in 1995 that Mr Wilson and a union sidekick, Ralph Blewitt, had siphoned off money that had been paid to the fund by construction company Theiss into secret West Australian bank accounts.

While insisting she had no involvement in the fund’s workings, Ms Gillard did not disclose her legal work on the fund to other partners of her firm. Nor did she inform her client, the AWU, that she was doing the work for Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt.

Her relationship with fellow partners “fractured” and she left Slater & Gordon after her role in setting up the fund came to their attention.

Ms Gillard was involved in conveyancing work related to the purchase of a house in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, bought at auction by Mr Wilson in 1993 — in part with money from the slush fund — in Mr Blewitt’s name. Ms Gillard attended the 1993 auction with Mr Wilson, who subsequently lived in the house.

A spokesman for the AWU confirmed to The Australian yesterday that the union’s national secretary, Paul Howes, had instructed officials to co-operate with Victorian police last year when warrants were served to search the archives.

Mr Daly, the AWU’s West Australian branch secretary for almost a decade until 2007, told The Australian he had placed boxes of archives related to the slush fund involving Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt in a storage unit in the Perth suburb of Maylands in the hope that they would be fully investigated by police one day.

He said he had last seen the contents in 2002, recalling that two boxes in particular contained photocopies of cheques made out to cash and copies of documents related to the purchase of the Fitzroy property. “There were photocopies of cash cheques -- $50,000, $25,000 and $15,000 — a lot in cash cheques,” Mr Daly said. “Also receipts for the house in Fitzroy — lots of documents.”

AWU minutes are among other papers believed to have been seized by Victorian police.

Mr Daly, who runs a cafe in Perth’s Swan Valley, said he left the documents in the storage unit rented by the AWU when he departed the union in 2008. He has repeatedly called for an inquiry into the slush fund since then.

A spokesman for the AWU said the documents had remained untouched since Mr Daly had left, and the union was not sure what Victorian police had seized. A separate batch of 363 documents relating to the Wilson case have been the subject of legal action and remained sealed since they were seized by Victorian police under warrant from Slater & Gordon in June.

In December, Victoria’s most senior magistrate negated Mr Wilson’s right to claim privilege over the documents previously held by Slater & Gordon, after finding reasonable grounds to conclude the documents had been prepared “in furtherance of the commission of a fraud or an offence”.

Mr Wilson is fighting in the courts to keep the documents sealed.

Chief Magistrate Peter Lauritsen found that evidence provided by Mr Blewitt, formerly Mr Wilson’s union mate, had established that the construction company Theiss was “deceived” when it believed it was providing funds to the AWU Workplace Reform Association for a particular service.

“Wilson bought a home with some of Theiss’s payments. Only he knows what happened (to) the rest,” Mr Lauritsen said.

Mr Daly told The Australian he did not know what had happened to the documents he stored after he left the union and he had taken nothing with him. After facing a union election in 2007, he failed in a bid to win a state Labor seat.

He briefly worked as an industrial officer before Mr Howes removed him in 2008 following internal complaints the union was losing membership. “I’ve felt the sharp end of the stick ... I wouldn’t expect that Paul Howes would give me the time of day,” Mr Daly said.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-fund-documents/story-fng5kxvh-1226825253411#
 
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If you were a regular reader of the site, you would have realised he often asks for donations.

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Kangaroo Court Article:

http://kangraroocoutofaustralia.com...ally-involved-in-the-julia-gillard-awu-fraud/

Smoking gun document shows John Cain and Maurice Blackburn lawyers criminally involved in the Julia Gillard AWU fraud

Below is a smoking gun document that is bound to receive substantial attention at the up and coming Royal Commission into unions because it nails Maurice and Blackburn Lawyers and their then CEO John Cain Jnr. for their role in covering-up the Julia Gillard – Bruce Wilson AWU fraud.

The document is authored by John Cain and was signed by him on the 17th of August 1995. It is direct evidence and Mr Cain will find it hard to blame others. It is one very powerful prima facie case against Mr Cain when the document is put together with the evidence in the affidavit signed on the 19th September 1996 by Ian Cambridge. (Click here to read the Ian Cambridge affidavit)

With the Royal Commission into Unions being formally signed off on Friday (14/3/14) and announcing it will hold its first hearing on the 9th of April (Click here to read) it is worth looking at one of many side players who has a lot to worry about.

Much has been written about the main players in the AWU fraud such as Julia Gillard and Bruce Wilson etc but very little focus has been about the dozens of people involved in covering up the corruption. So let’s have a look at John Cain and the evidence that should have him charged or at the very least have him turning on others to protect himself. As we know concealing a crime is a crime in itself. (See the Crimes Act 1914 sections 42. Conspiracy to defeat justice and 43. Attempting to pervert justice)

Background

Regular followers of this site will know most of the background so I will keep it brief. New readers can get further backgrounding by reading the Julia Gillard / Bruce Wilson AWU Fraud Page (Click here to read)

Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard helped her former boyfriend Bruce Wilson rip off the Australian Workers Union (AWU) in the early 1990′s. Bruce Wilson worked at the AWU and set up many different bank accounts to steal money from the AWU. One of those accounts is listed on the document below and was called the “Australian Workers Union Welfare Account” which was held at the Commonwealth Bank.

Bruce Wilson and others were resigning (being sacked for fraud and theft) from the AWU on the 18th of August 1995 and the document below relates to what happened on the day before on the 17th of August 1995. There was a meeting at the Commonwealth Bank to split up the stolen funds and return some of the money to the companies where the money was stolen from.

At the meeting were John Cain, the bank manager Peter McCarthy and representing the AWU were Bruce Wilson and Bob Smith. The name Jim Collins from the AWU also shows up on Cambridge’s affidavit as having some involvement.

I copied the document from the Federal Court of Australia in December 2012 when I inspected the files in relation to the Gillard / AWU fraud. It shows money which was fraudulently gained from companies by Bruce Wilson being returned to those same companies. The document also shows John Cain, who was the CEO of Maurice Blackburn Lawyers from 1991 to 2002, instructing the bank a manager at the Commonwealth Bank what cheques needed to be written to cover-up the fraud and theft. John Cain had to know exactly what was happening and why the money was being returned to the companies. He also had to have known that Ian Cambridge was investigating fraud at the AWU.

John Cain - Maurice Blackburn page 1
 
This might be a better link

http://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2014/03/



bigdog said:
Kangaroo Court Article:

http://kangraroocoutofaustralia.com...ally-involved-in-the-julia-gillard-awu-fraud/

Smoking gun document shows John Cain and Maurice Blackburn lawyers criminally involved in the Julia Gillard AWU fraud

Below is a smoking gun document that is bound to receive substantial attention at the up and coming Royal Commission into unions because it nails Maurice and Blackburn Lawyers and their then CEO John Cain Jnr. for their role in covering-up the Julia Gillard – Bruce Wilson AWU fraud.

The document is authored by John Cain and was signed by him on the 17th of August 1995. It is direct evidence and Mr Cain will find it hard to blame others. It is one very powerful prima facie case against Mr Cain when the document is put together with the evidence in the affidavit signed on the 19th September 1996 by Ian Cambridge. (Click here to read the Ian Cambridge affidavit)

With the Royal Commission into Unions being formally signed off on Friday (14/3/14) and announcing it will hold its first hearing on the 9th of April (Click here to read) it is worth looking at one of many side players who has a lot to worry about.

Much has been written about the main players in the AWU fraud such as Julia Gillard and Bruce Wilson etc but very little focus has been about the dozens of people involved in covering up the corruption. So let’s have a look at John Cain and the evidence that should have him charged or at the very least have him turning on others to protect himself. As we know concealing a crime is a crime in itself. (See the Crimes Act 1914 sections 42. Conspiracy to defeat justice and 43. Attempting to pervert justice)

Background

Regular followers of this site will know most of the background so I will keep it brief. New readers can get further backgrounding by reading the Julia Gillard / Bruce Wilson AWU Fraud Page (Click here to read)

Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard helped her former boyfriend Bruce Wilson rip off the Australian Workers Union (AWU) in the early 1990′s. Bruce Wilson worked at the AWU and set up many different bank accounts to steal money from the AWU. One of those accounts is listed on the document below and was called the “Australian Workers Union Welfare Account” which was held at the Commonwealth Bank.

Bruce Wilson and others were resigning (being sacked for fraud and theft) from the AWU on the 18th of August 1995 and the document below relates to what happened on the day before on the 17th of August 1995. There was a meeting at the Commonwealth Bank to split up the stolen funds and return some of the money to the companies where the money was stolen from.

At the meeting were John Cain, the bank manager Peter McCarthy and representing the AWU were Bruce Wilson and Bob Smith. The name Jim Collins from the AWU also shows up on Cambridge’s affidavit as having some involvement.

I copied the document from the Federal Court of Australia in December 2012 when I inspected the files in relation to the Gillard / AWU fraud. It shows money which was fraudulently gained from companies by Bruce Wilson being returned to those same companies. The document also shows John Cain, who was the CEO of Maurice Blackburn Lawyers from 1991 to 2002, instructing the bank a manager at the Commonwealth Bank what cheques needed to be written to cover-up the fraud and theft. John Cain had to know exactly what was happening and why the money was being returned to the companies. He also had to have known that Ian Cambridge was investigating fraud at the AWU.

John Cain - Maurice Blackburn page 1
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Julia Gillard on notice to get lawyer for inquiry

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...yer-for-inquiry/story-fng5kxvh-1226909582423#

THE royal commission into union wrongdoing is alerting Julia Gillard and her one-time boyfriend, disgraced union boss Bruce Wilson, that its hearings will start next week with evidence from a corrupt former AWU official who has confessed to fraud involving a slush fund set up after legal advice from the former prime minister.

Notifications are going out to parties who may be adversely mentioned in evidence from Ralph Blewitt, who returned to Australia from his home in Malay*sia this week to help the royal commission and an ongoing fraud investigation by Victoria Police.

The notifications are being made by the commission’s lawyers to ensure that people have the chance to seek to be legally represented at public hearings.

The Australian can reveal that Mr Blewitt intends to tell retired High Court judge Dyson Heydon’s royal commission about his role in a criminal fraud in the 1990s. He will give evidence of how he and his then boss, Mr Wilson, allegedly siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from a building company to the union slush fund, the Australian Workers Union Workplace Reform Association.

The Australian revealed online yesterday that Mr Blewitt would be the newly established royal commission’s first witness. He first confessed his dishonesty with the slush fund in interviews with The Australian in 2012. This led to revelations about the fund from further disclosures and documents including several released by a former partner of the law firm Slater & Gordon, Nick Styant-Browne, who was Ms Gillard’s colleague in the 1990s.

The royal commission’s chief executive, Jane Fitzgerald, confirmed in a brief statement that the opening hearing on Monday would “deal with matters associated with the Workplace Reform Association”, which is covered by the terms of reference agreed by Attorney-General George Brandis.

“Next week’s hearing has been necessitated by the return to Australia of a person associated with the Workplace Reform Association,’’ Ms Fitzgerald said.

She said further hearings on the matter might take place at a later date and that “any person or institution who believes they have a direct and substantial interest in the scope and purpose of the hearing” may apply in writing to appear at the commission.

Revelations about the Workplace Reform Association have dogged the former prime minister, who provided legal advice as a solicitor at Slater & Gordon to help establish the slush fund for Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt in the early 1990s. Ms Gillard and Mr Wilson have repeatedly and strenuously denied wrongdoing.

Mr Blewitt’s Melbourne-based solicitor, Bob Galbally, said: “Ralph is prepared to incriminate himself and reveal all. I have been told that he will be in the witness box for a day or two.”

Mr Galbally said he was unsure whether Victoria Police detectives, who intend to conduct a further interview with Mr Blewitt today or tomorrow, have provided their evidence of the fraud to which he has confessed to the royal commission.

Harry Nowicki, a legal associate and confidant of Mr Blewitt who has been researching the case for two years, said: “He is looking forward to giving his evidence. Ralph has come back to give his evidence because he has nothing to hide. He will be a witness of truth.”

Mr Blewitt, 69, who was a state secretary of the Australian Workers Union and an ally of Mr Wilson, has told of burying wads of ill-gotten cash in the backyard of his home. He has claimed that money was taken from the slush fund to pay for renovations at Ms Gillard’s home, and to buy a terrace house in Melbourne where Mr Wilson would live. The former prime minister has insisted that she paid for the renovations at her home.

Victoria Police detectives who have been running an 18-month investigation with Mr Blewitt’s co-operation, intend to charge him with fraud-related offences, to which he will plead guilty. He is expected to give evidence against others. It is understood that in return for his co-operation and guilty plea, police will make courtroom submissions that Mr Blewitt should not be sentenced to jail.

Mr Blewitt’s travel expenses for his current visit to Australia are being met by a private citizen who has wanted to see the slush fund issues properly investigated by police and the royal commission.

In his most recent interview with The Australian, Mr Blewitt said: “I was a criminal when I was in the AWU and I’ve put my hand up for it. I’ve confessed to being a partner in the AWU slush fund. I’ve said it was a fraud and I don’t step away from any of it. Of course I’m guilty.”

Police led by Detective Sergeant Ross Mitchell have used a search warrant to seize more than 350 documents from Slater & Gordon, and travelled across Australia to take statements from numerous witnesses.

Police have told Victoria’s chief magistrate, Peter Lauritsen, they are investigating four types of offence in relation to “Wilson, Blewitt and others”: obtaining property by deception; receiving secret commissions; making and using false documents; and conspiracy to cheat and defraud.

In 2012, Ms Gillard attacked Mr Blewitt, who was once her client, as a complete idiot, a stooge, imbecile and sexist pig. The former salaried partner of Slater & Gordon has insisted that she did not know that the AWU Workplace Reform Association, which she told her legal partners in a confidential intervew was really a “slush fund” for union elections, would be used as a vehicle for a fraud.
 

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