Asking to be believed in lieu of bagman Blewitt might be seen as "leading with your chin." Despite two "marathon" media interviews, outside parliament, many questions remain unanswered. Answering those questions inside parliament would settle the matter. Misleading the public and journalists is allowed, misleading parliament is not.
JULIA Gillard has painted the AWU Reform Association slush fund fraud as a credibility contest between her and her former boyfriend’s old bagman Ralph Blewitt.
Read more:http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/
Still trying to make my mind up http://youtu.be/NSqDExOvUdM
Posted by: jules | November 27, 2012 at 08:15 AM
Well....I guess our 'PM' would know a liar when she saw one.
The only conclusion I can come too in all of this sorry affair is that the 'truth and nothing but the truth' will never be revealed and that at the VERY BEST/LEAST our "PM' is guilty of stupidity so there fore I have made up my mind, and this may come as shock to our 'PM'.... but I believe none of you that are associated with this AWU issue...I think you are all tarred with the same brush and would do anything, including selling your soul, to protect the "good 'ol union".
Posted by: Grantley | November 27, 2012 at 08:36 AM
The PM accuses Blewitt of being a sleeze and anything else her inventive mind can come up with, but says little about her ex-boyfriend and his character - maybe description might fail her - or she has something to fear.
Gillard is becoming increasingly strident, increasingly hysterical in her name calling, swinging around wildly for someone to blame other than herself - Abbott of course, which suggests to me that she is very afraid those interested in her less than sweet background are coming close to something she would prefer they didn't.
If the polls are correct, if Gillards slides out from under the less than sweet smell surrounding her preently, voters will deliver her an exit ticket she will not be able to talk her way out of.
Posted by: ibbit | November 27, 2012 at 09:48 AM
I'm putting my money on Blewitt.
Posted by: vivienne | November 27, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Prima facie (a little self-disbarred, failed, six-months' gap in resumé, puts a new spin on 'criminal-Lawyer' Lingo for all y'all. there) there is no contest, then.
RecidivistjuLiar's 'there will be no carbon tax' mouth's moving? RecidivistjuLiar's lying.
RecidivistjuLiar says Mr Blewett's a bag (bad?) man?
Check she's not off with Mr Blewett's shirt.
And Several 2012 Millions of his union's Dollars.
Posted by: Brian Richard Allen | November 27, 2012 at 12:42 PM
Put a fork in her.
She -- and despite her rabid employment of the Alinsky/co-serial-rapist/recidivist-Missus-Clinton/Obama Nuts and Sluts Defense? -- Is done.
Posted by: Brian Richard Allen | November 27, 2012 at 12:49 PM
Hate having to compare! http://youtu.be/H6t4REXcCF0
Posted by: jules | November 27, 2012 at 01:14 PM
Where is the file Julia Gillard was supposed to set up?. She did not do it. Where are the other missing files. Boxes there with nothing in them!! Now getting her mate to look into those missing files. It is up to the police to do that). Suspicion they were shredded. Why was Kernohan bashed and bullets sent by mail to frighten him from telling the truth. Why did journalists who spoke up lose their jobs? And others who tried to raise the question silenced. Why was a good Attorney General Bob McClelland demoted to put in a person like Roxon who gave that disgusting Slipper person who sent text messages abouot female parts (documented) help amongst other things entry into the Court. Why was Cambridge promoted? Why has a past partner of Slater Gordon spoken out - a man with a conscience? To say that she was naive did not warrant Juliar Gillard being a partner in Slater & Gordon. She was obliged to leave the firm. Why doesn't she recall this and that? Young and naive and now bordering on alzheimers. I am sure also that by living with a man for 4 years a person would know what he was up to. Julia Gillard has lost her memory about the money put in her bank account, attending the auction of a property, and the lst goes on. All of this certainly smacks of bribery and corruption Stand up and be counted and tell the truth.
Posted by: Georgina | November 27, 2012 at 01:48 PM
Absolutly agree. Michael Smith has publicly accused her of being a crook - so why doesn't she sue for slander ?
Because if she does, there will be a court case and ALL of the documents he holds will become public knowledge.
I've seen all the docs, heard all the stories and if this accusation was leveled at anyone else, the SFP would issue a warrent in a flash. She is a thief and a liar. Best bet for MS is to publish all the documents in a private flyer and deliver it to every house hold in Oz so everyone finally sees the truth of it
Posted by: John Neeting | November 27, 2012 at 03:04 PM
According to this newspaper poll today Gillard's version is accepted by the voters by a whooping 62/38 margin
so much for Bishop /Abbott's campaigns
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/bishop-unleashes-the-bank-robbers-20121127-2a4e3.html#poll
Posted by: Tom Skene | November 27, 2012 at 06:36 PM
That depends which paper you read, Tom. I read a poll that said 50/50. A poll in the Fairfax press says 62/38, well would you ever think that?
I watched in disgust as Gillard carried on like an ill-mannered fishwife in parliament. Yesterday I heard call Blewitt a sleaze, a scumbag, a pig, a fraudster, etc, etc, etc. today I heard her call Abbott gutless on two occasions in addition to Albanese calling Blewitt a scumbag and a sleaze.
This is the language I would expect at a union meeting and certainly not from those in parliament that are supposed to be representing Australians. The language indicated that Gillard is, as Brownyn said yesterday, not fit to be the PM of this country.
Did you hear similar language from the two Bishops?
Posted by: Linne | November 27, 2012 at 07:02 PM
Do Julie Bishop a favor and lend her your documents John if you reckon you have the goods. Because she as sure as Hell needs something substantive.Who is the thief and liar ?
Posted by: patriciataylor3@bigpond.com | November 27, 2012 at 10:01 PM
a pathetic exercize; Abbott unleashing JB to do his dirty work. utterly cowardly and hey it totally flippin well failed. what do they now have left.
Posted by: Tee | November 27, 2012 at 10:07 PM
Julie Bishop is out of her depth...for a lightweight she is in very deep,water...AND MAY Face demands that her charges which skirt the libel laws when said outside the House,,,must be proved !!
otherwise she is finished
Posted by: Tom Skene | November 28, 2012 at 12:24 AM
Tom, the only really important poll says the majority of the population don't believe her.
Abbott is too smart and too honest for Dullard. She is gooooooneski.
Posted by: kraka | November 28, 2012 at 07:12 AM
So it is OK for Gillard and Albanese to publically slander Bishop, Abbott and Blewitt, with language that befits loudmouthed buffoons, but God forbid they should say anything about Truthful Julia.
It is a bit of a mystery that Gillard and Albanses are not slandering Wilson in the same manner. After all, Wilson is the person that supposedly wronged Gillard and she supposedly got rid of him when she found out what he was up to. So what was it he was up to that you don't know anything about, Julia?
Then we hear from Wilson last night that he didn't do anything wrong either. Strange that.
Posted by: Linne | November 28, 2012 at 09:16 AM
Yeah, who is the liar? Is it Truthful Julia or Wonky Wilson, or both? I found it interesting that during his stint on the ABC 7.30 Report last night that Wilson used the same phrases that Gillard had used in Parliament the day before. A bit of collusion maybe?
Time for a Royal Commission into this mess.
Posted by: Linne | November 28, 2012 at 09:24 AM
Onya Julia, you are doing a good job of convincing me that the Unions and ALP are run by greedy crooks with crooked lawyers showing them the way it's done.
To criticise Blewett on hearsay for attending Thai whorehouses in his own time, presumably using scammed funding, while supporting Thompson's denial that he did the same, using Australian whorehouses and union cards, is another example of a prevaricating woman scorned.
Yesterday the inexperienced Bishop nearly got one score on the board when she asked did Gillard's renovator go to the AWU for payment for work done. Saved by the bell on that wording.
If Bishop had asked, "Was Gillard aware her renovator went to the AWU for payment for work on Gillard's property", the follow-up question would have made it game set and match.
Think Julia should start looking over her shoulder at old Bob Used Carr. He was brought back from the dead for a reason.
Posted by: Grumpyoldman2 | November 28, 2012 at 10:40 AM
Grumpyoldman2, you can't be seriously hinting that they would install that full of himself, self-appointed intellectual know all Wrecked Carr?
Still, thinking about it, that is about their speed.
Posted by: Linne | November 28, 2012 at 12:13 PM
Makes you wonder if Wilson has something on Gillard and vice versa and that if either one speaks up the other will be damned.
Gillard, the fishwife is a disgrace to Australia.
The sooner her and her vile mind and tongue are dipatched to obscurity, the better of we all will be - even the dills who support this foul government.
Posted by: ibbit | November 28, 2012 at 01:20 PM
yes yes Ibbitt give us Bishop playing yes woman to Abbott any day, no vile poo flingers there aye aye.
Posted by: Tee | November 28, 2012 at 01:43 PM
and now we also have Julie's sudden memory loss, her confusion of how many telephone calls, one or two, exactly when? yes he was a known fraud but...but there werent any documents.
the shock jock introduced them- what collusion, of all people an unbiased shock jock steering events- unheard of in our democracy. But the deputy opposition leader, the deputy PM in waiting, cannot remember the exact course of events since last week, who she spoke to, how many times, and well, as I said above this is pathetic, farcical desperate bilge and it now seems the only poo thats gonna stick here will be on Bishop and that big tough macho guy who goes by the name of the leader of the Opposition but as in other days is nowhere to be seen. Any porkies being told as well?
Posted by: Tee | November 28, 2012 at 02:01 PM
Yeah, Gillard, Wilson and Albanese are hell bent on blackening Blewitt. Their irrational conduct and the indecent haste to sink this man makes me believe that he has something really damaging either already in police hands or in an as yet undisclosed file.
I watched Wilson on the 7.30 Report last night and I don't think I have ever seen anyone so unbelievable. He had a perfect recall of things that happened many years ago but when pushed couldn't remember the details.
That is probably the coaching he has had from Gillard because he is employing the same lawyers trick that she is, "I have no recollection of that".
Posted by: Linne | November 28, 2012 at 03:06 PM
Another Labor grub demonstrated today that the abandonment of ethics, morals and principles was situation normal for the Labor leader and her serfs. As a result of Labor MP Steve Gibons venture into mealy-mouthed attack on Julie Bishop, Gillard again proved that she cannot be trusted to keep her word.
Gillard was going to call out sexism wherever she found it but that didn't eventuate when the sexism was perpetrated by one of her own.
Gillard had the cheek to call Abbott a gutless wonder. Well, you don't anything much more gutless than a leader that won't call out her own or a low-life Labor MP that hasn't got the intestinal fortitude to look either Bishop or Abbott in the eye and make the same remarks.
Posted by: Linne | November 28, 2012 at 06:36 PM