ALP/ACTU cleaning out the stables
An emergency meeting by the Australian Council of Trade Unions executive today voted to suspend the HSU after a report on the union was referred by Fair Work Australia to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.
ACTU President Ged Kearney said the decision to suspend the union “was not taken lightly”
Believe me readers, this is all part of a ‘keep the ALP in office‘ plan and has little do with ACTU sensitivities. The ALP and associates need to separate themselves from Thomson before the upcoming election or, if against all ALP efforts, the public get the full story.
With every ALP and union member looking the other way and whistling while Thomson stews in his own malfeasance, the matter is an albatross around the government’s neck
If I had been accused of theft of public monies to use for prostitutes and personal gain I would, if innocent, have moved heaven and earth to bring all the facts out in the open to prove my innocence – within weeks. The fact that all Thomson has ever done, over a period of three plus years, is profess his innocence without any facts to back it up, simply makes him look guilty. The fact the Gillard and company can only repeat the mantra “I have faith in Craig Thomson” simply makes them look complicit.
It looks like the government, with all it’s inherent problems, is currently maintaining power based on a criminal. Until they release all details then that is how the majority of people will view the issue.
Eighteen months and counting.
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Simon Benson’s article points out that the ALP juggernaut is kaput and just hiding out in the Scapa Flow like the Bismarch of WW2 fame.
Article: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/denial-is-a-sad-refuge-for-party-in-death-throes/story-e6frezz0-1226320016281
That the Labor movement itself is severing HSC ties, indicates that voices from the sub branches must be shrill and re enrollments must be cascading in other unions otherwise they would have stood silent.
The conversation continuing is that the ALP gene pool is being shredded speaks volumes to their own inability to recognise that the gene pool was ever very shallow and very polluted for the party to be in such dire straits held captive by one member in such infamy.
As for the Prime Minister, the Sargeant Schulz defense being one she is familiar with herself, lends more shadow than light.
That they think that the Qld result of six potentially of seven left standing at this time may be a low water mark and that the Carbon Tax remaining unmandated, electricity bills about to increase again, the cost of living pressures to increase shows a measure of denial that can only be measured against King Canute like personal belief systems.
Simon Benson remarks perfect storm, I agree and it hasn’t even hit yet.
At least the ACTU is taking action.
Contrast that with the record of the Howard government (and Tony Abbott who is like a broken record on the subject). They were quite happy to shelter a convicted criminal on the government benches for years. Wilson Tuckey actually held a ministry until resigning in 2003 when he blotted his copybook by trying to use his influence to get a family member off a traffic charge.
This “minister” was convicted of assault in 1967. He bashed a man with a steel cable whilst others held him down.
I’ll quote Graham Edwards –
“As far as I’m concerned, he’s just a bloody big coward. Anyone who makes a name for himself on the basis of having someone else hold a person down while you hit them is, in my books, a dingo”.
This dingo was finally booted out in 2010, but he was deemed OK for years by the same people who are now critical of Gillard for showing confidence in Thompson. Hilarious.
Graham is a passionate ALP man but really Wilson was just a product of the times and the bush. I’ve had a beer in the old Port Hotel at Carnarvon where the assault happened and no one there thinks he’s a bloody big coward. Just you sensitive types and conservative haters. It was a hard pub full of hard drinkers and most, if not all publicans,in country pubs had some pursuader or other to deal with the recalcitrants. There were no police in Carnarvon in those days so they had to sort out their own problems. Wilson did just that and got carried away, as you do. He was summonsed and fined $40.
And you are suggesting that the Thomson case has some equivalence!
Theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars of union monies from poorly paid, hard working Australians. I wonder what Graham would think of that. All of the ALP are embarrasses 17 etc and very worried that the facts will become public.
To make matters worse we effectively have a four year cover up and everyone from the PM down are complicit.
The only thing the ACTU is doing is distancing themselves and their ALP mates from the HSU – don’t look for any altruism there!
I just feel sorry for the poor HSU members – what must they be thinking?
“At least the ACTU is taking action” against whom?
The union that is trying to pressure release of the reports and recommendations of that other arm of Labor…..Fair Work Australia. The ACTU bans a union that they see as a threat because of unproven allegations….Juliar has not followed the same course…..there has been an incomplete investigation made of the HSU (WITHOUT A FINDING) and they are wiped like a dirty bum by the body overseeing their existence….there has been an incomplete investigation into the minister but of course you have noted that Juliar has taken no action in relation to her member. I don’t understand your point in stating that at least the ACTU has taken action and then ramble on about inaction by a previous Government……seems like more of “it is an accepted way to conduct Govt. because its been done before”…..still not “moving forward” are we. Your arguement indicates that perhaps lessons that should have been learned from the past are being used as an arguement to justify similar events of today…..haven’t learnt much have we?
Slightly off topic, but 173 your appearance at Bunyip’s place demonstrates the lack of argument for defence you continually appear unable to constrain.
A clever mind say a Collingwood supporter whose team has just lost a game, goes to ground and the only reply to continued abuse on the loss is not argument but a left hook to the back of the ear followed by an upper cut to the groin or reverse tactic depending on targets position.
There is no defence for the indefensible, none. Wilson Tuckey is hardly an example for comparison, barely a factor in government at any time, went before the magistrate probably proudly declared guilt and recieved punishment.
So if comparison is your only argument and poor argument at that I proffer the only advice reasonable for you, never take up debating or symbolic logic. Ignore any urge to become a Jesuit.
The only close comparison was the dancing senator of rocky horror fame, and even then most people looked at the crime as mental abberation and fear of a very public spotlight and on scales of justice terms not even close, shop lifting v grand larceny, the minor infraction charged and put before the courts and the other attempting defence by lawsuit to silence accusers and still no charges or brief laid for investigation to prosecute, the office itself Fair Work Australia now viewed as corrupt and doomed to the dust bin of history.
No a shameful period in Labor history, which is symbolic of the complete nonsense policy of the removal of shop floor representation (and workplace nous) replaced by student politicians with no life experience away from grubby deal making.
The light on the hill glows red as the lamp of a tawdry brothel. The labor movements dies. Your ignoring of the realities hastens the demise.
Me I have voted Labor many times, I have advised business of the bush that they must learn to deal with both sides of politics, why Beattie survived a long time, advice I would never give in this period of Labor extinction.
As to Prime Minister’s Rudd and Gillard’s place in history a tale in two parts, they should look at former Premier Bligh and weep in fear.