Senior NSW Police have been informed by American Express in the US that Mr Thomson and Health Services Union boss Michael Williamson were both
supplied with credit cards by John Gilleland.
Communigraphix, a graphic design business run by Mr Gilleland, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to produce the HSU newsletter, Health Standard.
Senior police sources say Mr Thomson – who would be forced to resign from Parliament if charged and ultimately found guilty – had use of the American Express card for two years.
Mr Thomson
denies receiving any credit cards from suppliers when he was HSU national secretary from 2002 to 2007.
From the goverment spin mill:
THE price of basics such as milk and other dairy products will rise by less than 10c a week under the carbon tax, the federal government claimed yesterday as it moved to calm fears the controversial policy will hammer household budgets.
Treasury modelling also calculate that seafood, meat, fruit, vegetables and alcohol will only rise by 10c a week.
Sorry, I simply don’t believe them.
This claim is made based on modelling that is only as accurate as the input data and I just know there won’t be any worse-case scenarios entered.
So the NSW police find Thompson has no case to answer on fraud allegations. I would say there is no case of fraud simply because the HSU Union doesn’t have hard and fast rules on the use of members monies. Ie, this sort of shit has being going on for years and unions think it’s OK.
If the police had found any evidence that someone else had forged his signature and produced his drivers licence as proof of ID then that person would be subject to fraud charges.
So that that makes Thompson guilty. Not of any crime but of being a low-life who, while in a position of trust, used members hard earned money for sexual gratification and then publicly denied it.
The Coalition has vowed to
continue their pursuit of Thompson and so they should.
From
Graham Richardson in the Oz
Then of course there is the Craig Thomson effect. This bloke is damaging the Labor brand every day he hangs around the parliament like a bad smell in a lift. Gillard is not responsible for this either but what a dilemma she has. Dump him and lose government or cling on to him to maintain the parliamentary numbers and watch the slide in the polls continue. Thomson is the suicide bomber’s vest, wrapped tightly around the Prime Minister and the Labor Party. It cannot be defused and at some stage it is destined to explode. Police investigations will take a while. Then, if a decision is made to charge him with a criminal offence, Thomson will be lost in the justice system for a couple of years.
The Health Services Union are
infighting.The need to be very careful here as there exists the real possibility that this case will bring down a government. Their actions will be gone over with a fine tooth comb by all the ALP luvvies from now and forever as in Whitlam’s “Maintain the Rage.
When in doubt be honest and Good luck!
Tony Abbott raises a fair point;
“I think it’s very hard for someone who can’t answer questions about his own credit card to credibly ask questions of the Governor of the Reserve Bank about the nation’s credit card.”
Do the ALP really believe that the public are happy with Thompson’s denials – surely not!
On the face of it, the NSW and/or the Federal ALP coughed up a six figure sum to prevent Thompson being declared bankrupt which would force him vacate his position as the member for Dobel and thus bring on a bi- election that the ALP would surely loose.
I can only imagine that Julia would do anything to prevent that happening including standing in front of the people and saying “He’s doing a good job” What a hide that woman has.
It appears he is also involved in procuring the services of prostitutes using his Union credit card and in the face of overwhelming evidence makes barefaced denials. How can anyone think he is a worthy representative for his electorate?
the ALP will be busy scurrying around briefing a battalion of lawyers with a view to stalling the legal process until the public are distracted by another huge ALP stuff-up.
I just hope it doesn’t work. If we have a lying criminal stealing from his employer masquerading as a respectable politician then we need to know and if it is the case then he needs to go.
UPDATE: Today’s revelations on the matter courtsey
Andrew Bolt
UPDATE 11: And more from
Tim Blair
The Government
destroys an entire industry worth about $300 million a year and then offers the loosers $30 million to go away and be quiet.
Won’t work.
Gillard says there is no quick fix for the ALP’s huge stuff-up and it’s certainly true that offers from the government aren’t going to help any time soon. Some properties have tens of thousands of dollar fuel bills just to water their stock and others are paying more in monthly interest bills than the $5,000 immediate support offered.
A suggestion of maybe up to $20,000 later is not even going to pay the monthly fuel bills on some properties. Meanwhile the cost of meat drops across the nation as everyone tries to sell off their surplus beef previously allocated to Indonesia. This may be good news for families suffering from other ALP stuff-ups but not the beef producers.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said: ”I think that the cattle industry doesn’t want welfare, they want their trade back.” while the Greens advocate eliminating the entire industry.
Greens leader Bob Brown condemned the bailout, arguing the live export trade should be banned.
”It’s got the aim of resuming the slaughter in Indonesia of Australian livestock, and the Greens are the only party which doesn’t want to see that happen,” he said.
Now that’s a cavalier way of treating the livelihood of hundreds of workers and businesses involved in the $300 million trade. The Greens are the only party that doesn’t want live trade resumed because they don’t care about such things as livelihoods while it conflicts with their perfect unlivable world.
We are being badly governed for the minority and it’s not going to get better any time soon.
From the Australian Conservative;
Beef Central has an interesting letter from a live export industry stakeholder in response to the ABC Four Corners program last week:
I would like to have the same time … to show you the other side of our industry. To show you what is really going on. In Australia there used to be thing about “A Fair Go”. You have gone with images provided by one person followed up by your investigative journalist who spent a week in Indonesia.
If you are going to have a position on the live cattle export trade then you should
read the full response.
UPDATE
From Menzies House;
Cyndi Bakalian, a small business feed owner, wrote this letter to Julia Gillard, begging her to reconsider the rash decision to ban live exports – a decision that will destroy her family business, and force her employees into unemployment:
Read her letter
here
For the Labor Party, tobacco money is dirty money, but the Federal
Health Minister has been caught out seeking financial support from one of the nation’s top cigarette makers.
The ABC has obtained letters that show Nicola Roxon wrote to Philip Morris executives in 2005, inviting them to a $1,500-a-table fundraiser.
The event, featuring new MP Peter Garrett as the star attraction, was held a year after Mark Latham banned tobacco donations to the Labor Party.
Ms Roxon, who was then shadow attorney-general, signed off on the letters, saying she looked forward to the company’s “continuing support”.
No big deal but maybe the ALP will now shut up about the Coalition doing the same thing.
Hypocrites!
FEARS are escalating that the
Gillard government’s ban on live cattle exports to Indonesia will damage the country’s entire beef industry, with southern Australian farmers already reporting a drop in prices.
Domestic cattle producers are worried the 11,000 livestock stranded by the ban will flood the local market in coming months and cause a glut for all beef products. The Victorian Farmers Federation says prices for beef have already dropped by 10c a kilogram – or 5 per cent – in anticipation of this occurring, and stock agents have reported slow sales and a softening in consumer demand.
Another ALP “unintended consequences” coup.
Ludwig cancels contracts for six months and then demands the Meat & Livestock Asscn pay the farmers compo.
You caused the problem – you compensate them. A six month cancellation takes them into the wet season so it is effectively a twelve month cancellation.
Get your Green and PETA tossers vote some other way and stop stuffing honest workers around.
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