Fair Work - Crook Deck: High Stakes Poker

[joea]

Humpty Gillard sat on a economic wall,
Humpty Gillard had a great fall,
All the unions executives, and all the MP's and HSU executives,
Could not put her together again.

yeah! Hah!! Over here we have Wayne.
Over here we have the voters.
Over here we have Stevens of the RBA. We might put the rates
down next month.
Dah! Do you think we need it?

joea

[noco]

This whole Thomson saga is an absolute farce. It has more holes in it than a piece of Swiss cheese.

FWA is stacked with ALP hacks including one whose roll was an adviser to Paul Keating.

FWA and Gillard must take the public for fools into believing FWA is an independant body!!

What can we do about? Sweet FA.



http://blogs.news.com.au/couriermail...le_is_no_good/

[Julia]

And FWA is apparently refusing to co-operate with the Victoria and NSW Police investigations which presumably would be in a position to conduct the appropriate work to give to the CDPP.

Unbelievable that they can get away with this astonishing level of obfuscation.

From the blog above, comment from Gillard:

I don’t have anything before me which would cause me to alter from my previous statements of confidence in Mr Thomson.

This is a clear change of language from her previous unequivocal statements that "I have complete faith in Mr Thomson".
Might we assume from this that she knows quite well Thomson is named and she is qualifying her comments accordingly, while she and the rest of the government ensure the whole thing gets spun out for as long as possible.

Just disgusting.

[MrBurns]

Might we assume from this that she knows quite well Thomson is named and she is qualifying her comments accordingly, while she and the rest of the government ensure the whole thing gets spun out for as long as possible.
Just disgusting.

She knows very well he's almost certainly guilty too but shéd sell her soul to stay in power, sometimes I wonder if I'm still in Australia.

[joea]

This is a clear change of language from her previous unequivocal statements that "I have complete faith in Mr Thomson".

Just disgusting.

I am just wondering if a little bit has been left out of this statement by Gillard.

" remaining as a MP until the next election."
It appears this is what she meant.
Myself I do not know if Thompson is guilty of anything. But certainly something is on the nose in the HSU, and I have this feeling that at the end of the day, Jackson will be without a job.
If I had a business in the area I would employ her the next day.

joea

[bigdog]

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/pol...404-1wd9k.html

FWA playing games with the report issued!!!
''the material forwarded is not a brief of evidence''

extract of last paragraph's from this article.

As Julia Gillard stood by Mr Thomson, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions indicated it was unlikely to take criminal action after having referred to it the findings of the three-year Fair Work Australia investigation into the HSU when Mr Thomson was at the helm.

The investigation found 105 breaches of workplace law and 76 technical infringements that are just civil breaches.

It referred the report to the DPP to see if criminal charges were warranted but the DPP said yesterday ''the material forwarded is not a brief of evidence'' and it did not have investigative powers. It will look at the 1100-page report but criminal charges are unlikely, providing some relief to Mr Thomson and the Gillard government.

The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, again demanded FWA release the report and furnish the DPP with a brief of evidence.

[Julia]

This matter is now taking on the pretty clear dimensions of a massive and very purposeful cover up in order to protect the government.

Have a listen to the conclusions of Peter Faris, QC, on the shonkiness of FWA's 1100 page 'report' which is effectively useless.

Mr Faris suggests this will be the end of the matter and no prosecution will ever occur.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...ris-qc/3934190

[MrBurns]

FWA is corrupt, Thompson is corrupt Gillard supports them all she is corrupt, Wong is an apologist for corruption aiding and abetting the corrupt people and practices, the people are getting angrier and angrier.
Before this is over the people might take this to the streets , I'll join them

Worth repeating in light of Julias post.

[dutchie]

This matter is now taking on the pretty clear dimensions of a massive and very purposeful cover up in order to protect the government.

Have a listen to the conclusions of Peter Faris, QC, on the shonkiness of FWA's 1100 page 'report' which is effectively useless.

Mr Faris suggests this will be the end of the matter and no prosecution will ever occur.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...ris-qc/3934190

Are the Australian people going to let them get away with this corruption?

[Miss Hale]

I agree, this is a total debacle and I become angrier with every new chapter. No doubt in my mind that Thompson would have been out on his proverbial if Labor didn't hold such a slim majority. The only upside is they are not hoodwinking anyone with all their ridiculous spin and it will be yet another thing that will come back to bite them on the you know what at the next election.

She knows very well he's almost certainly guilty too but shéd sell her soul to stay in power, sometimes I wonder if I'm still in Australia.

This is the crux of it, Gillard would sell her soul (and has done) to stay in power, that became obvious when she did her deal with the Greens.

[plreader]

GG what can you do when the country is run by liars and self promoters. Im an old bugger but at least in my day the average Aussie could tell if he was being dudded and he wanted something done about it. The cities who decide the outcome of elections are filled with brainwashed and impotent poor excuses for Aussies who dribble out whatever lefty globalist view is flavour of the month. Save us.

[DB008]

This matter is now taking on the pretty clear dimensions of a massive and very purposeful cover up in order to protect the government.

Have a listen to the conclusions of Peter Faris, QC, on the shonkiness of FWA's 1100 page 'report' which is effectively useless.

Mr Faris suggests this will be the end of the matter and no prosecution will ever occur.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...ris-qc/3934190

That last minute pretty much sums it up Julia.
Coverup 101

[Logique]

Unbelievably badly handled. The ALP eh, not the sharpest tools any of them.

[MrBurns]

GG . The cities who decide the outcome of elections are filled with brainwashed and impotent poor excuses for Aussies who dribble out whatever lefty globalist view is flavour of the month. Save us.

I believe the media have dumbed down a whole generation ,they can't tell the difference between The Block, Master Chef and real life, and they don't care, they don't believe the can make a difference any more.

Shut down the commercial TV stations and leave SBS and the ABC and watch the collective intellect of the whole country lift appreciably.

[dutchie]

Shut down the commercial TV stations and leave SBS and the ABC and watch the collective intellect of the whole country lift appreciably.

You might be changing from one type of cr#p to another.

[MrBurns]

You might be changing from one type of cr#p to another.

I don't think so, among all the HSU and Work Australia problems, Ch7 news headed off with a story about football I think, no mention of HSU in the whole bulletin.

Lisa :Sorry, Dad, we _do_ believe in you, we really do.
Bart : It's just hard not to listen to TV ... it's spent so much more time raising us than you have.
Homer : Oh, maybe TV _is_ right. TV's _always_ right!

[Julia]

I don't think so, among all the HSU and Work Australia problems, Ch7 news headed off with a story about football I think, no mention of HSU in the whole bulletin.

ABC Radio have at least led all their news bulletins and current affairs with the HSU debacle. Even getting Peter Faris on Radio National this morning with his very candid assessment showed a willingness to not allow this matter to be swept under the proverbial carpet.

[Garpal Gumnut]

GG what can you do when the country is run by liars and self promoters. Im an old bugger but at least in my day the average Aussie could tell if he was being dudded and he wanted something done about it. The cities who decide the outcome of elections are filled with brainwashed and impotent poor excuses for Aussies who dribble out whatever lefty globalist view is flavour of the month. Save us.

plreader, mate, I could not have put it better myself.

The only path back to normality is for the ALP to be kicked in to the dustbin of history, it is their fault that the country is in such a bad shape, morally and financially, with little hope for a better future under their regime.

gg

[Garpal Gumnut]

This whole Thomson saga is an absolute farce. It has more holes in it than a piece of Swiss cheese.

FWA is stacked with ALP hacks including one whose roll was an adviser to Paul Keating.

FWA and Gillard must take the public for fools into believing FWA is an independant body!!

What can we do about? Sweet FA.



http://blogs.news.com.au/couriermail...le_is_no_good/

Revenge is best taken cold, as was done in the recent Queensland elections.

Your vote is powerful.

Use it when the time comes mate.

This Fair Work/ Gillard ALP Government con is obscene. It will be a lawyers picnic.

Your vote will end it and a subsequent Royal Commission will lead to criminal charges, which may go to the top.

gg

[MrBurns]

I can save the ALP, do a swap with your mates the Indonesians, put Gillard in jail over there and bring Corby back here as PM, that would be hugely popular for a number of reasons.