This newspaper article from Glenne Milne from November 2007 has been modified today to remove an allegation, apparently because it is “entirely untrue”. How does the Sunday Mail know, after 4 years that it is entirely untrue? They might remove it because it is an unsubstantiated allegation, but I wonder how they know it is definitely untrue?
If news media start to delete parts of articles after 4 years due to political pressure for no publicly known reasons, it should be of serious concern to Australians. Under the communists, we used to derive what little pleasure we could from the public rewriting of history, as the heads of politicians would appear and disappear from party photos, according to who was in favour. Without Photoshop in the 70′s, this was no mean feat.
THE con used by Julia Gillard’s former lover to cream off possibly more than $1 million was simple and backed by standover tactics. As union secretary, Bruce Morton Wilson would go on to construction sites and tell bosses they “needed” an industrial agreement which he would negotiate.
But there was a price – they would have to purchase hundreds of AWU membership tickets in exchange for the industrial peace guaranteed by the “agreement”.
However, when the employers made out the cheques – sometimes for more than $50,000 at a time – the money for memberships that never existed would go into phony AWU accounts that actually belonged to Wilson.
When the union discovered the fraud they went after Wilson through the courts.
In an affidavit the AWU’s then joint national secretary, Ian Cambridge, raised specific questions about the role of Ms Gillard’s law firm, Slater & Gordon, in the purchase of a Melbourne property by Wilson. “I am unable to understand how Slater & Gordon, who were then acting for the Victorian branch of the union, could have permitted the use of funds which where obviously taken from the union, in the purchase of private property of this nature, without seeking and obtaining proper authority from the union for such use of its funds,” Mr Cambridge said.
“To my knowledge, none of the $388,564.92 which passed through this account was used for authorised union purposes.”
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The first edition of today’s Sunday Mail contained an allegation that Ms Gillard had incorporated funds used by Mr Wilson. The Sunday Mail acknowledges that this allegation is entirely untrue. This error was made by Sunday Mail.
Will articles from now on first have to be approved by lawyers and then government party censors, like under the communists?
