Daily we hear pro-Labor commentators proclaim that there is no smoking gun. PM Gillard denies doing anything wrong. Abbott is apparently conducting a witch-hunt.

I am not a lawyer, but it seems screamingly obvious to me that Ms. Gillard engaged in unprofessional conduct, and as such is culpable because she ought to have known that she was not protecting her client, the AWU.

As I see it, Ms. Gillard was not working for S&G; she was a partner in S&G. Her duty of care was to the firm’s largest client, the AWU. The AWU was the largest union in Australia and gave the firm immense prestige. She gave her lover, Bruce Wilson, advice on how to set up a slush fund She knew it was a slush fund, and we have her own admission that it was a slush fund when she snarled on television “Everyone knew it was a slush fund!” She ought to have known that the AWU Workplace Reform Association may not be in her client’s (the AWU, the "paying" client) best interest. Therefore she has, in my opinion, been guilty of serious professional misconduct. I am surprised that she was not charged with professional misconduct at the time, and furthermore, I am surprised that she was not struck off the list of lawyers for her conduct. Perhaps she was?

As long as PM Gillard refuses to state in the House her past behavior, even in her own defence, her continued evasive behavior damns her. There is a smoking gun and the political commentators should call it.

Geoffrey Kelley

Shadow Minister; I wonder where you get the quaint idea that coalition members are crime free?
One who was renowned for being convicted was our dear old friend Wilson Tuckey.
Now he was a liberal I believe? A good example of a liberal with integrity?
I can only repeat what I said earlier; "If this is all that our leaders can do at a time of crisis, then it is time that we replaced them with proper leaders".
ps I loved the description of "Bishop's Darth Vadar stare".

Only a climate sceptic and friend of 'Lord' Monckton, Alan Jones and other failed Liberal candidates like Andrew Bolt (all the usual suspects) would argue in support of Abbott's claim that the PM has broken the law.

Which law? In all the articles and pop blogs put out by Gillard haters, there is no evidence, only insinuation.

What about Howard's payout of taxpayers' dollars to his brother's ailing company - and then he closed the loophole by which Howard claimed legitimacy? I never read Abbott, Jones, Bolt, or Cox criticise this sleazy bailout.

Do you smell smoke? I do. Most times, where there is smoke there is a fire. No, I'm not talking about the romantic fire between Wilson and Gillard.

I'm talking about the shady dealing that occurred in the past when our "I've done nothing wrong" P.M. was a solicitor and wheeling and dealing with some very dubious AWU clients.

We need a Royal Commission to get to the bottom of this fracas and to clear the air once and for all.

When can it start?

It was 20 years ago, she was not in the union, the statute of limitations is long gone.

Her crime today is the same crime as every PM since Hawke - jailing innocent human beings in concentration camps without legal or human rights simply because they asked for our help.

The poll results from yesterday are indicative of Julia Gillard's folly. Labor 46 Liberal 54, 80% think Julia's honesty questionable)

The folly of personally attacking a person with a superior intellect. That's Labor's folly as well. Abbott is intellectually superior to all of them. He has Degrees in Law and Economics from Sydney Uni. and Degrees in Politic's and Philosophy from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. That to me would be a really scary opponent and someone I'd go out of my way to avoid upsetting.

When Gillard attacked Abbott and labelled him a misogynist my first thought was

Abbott will destroy her for that false allegation.

He's done that by attacking her fundamental integrity. It's been immensely effective. His promise to pursue her after the next election isn't a hollow promise. If I was Julia I'd resign, emigrate and hide... now.

When Abbott promises a Royal Commission of enquiry with powers to prosecute charges, people won't ask themselves 'Is Abbott a misogynist?'

When Gillard promises to clean up Union fraud by giving further powers of investigation to Fair Work Australia, people will ask 'do we believe her?'

That's the issue the Labor Party will address.

Abbott has destroyed Gillard's Prime Ministership. He'll ensure her only legacy will be a belief in her dishonesty.

For all who claim all politicians are the same fellas you've swallowed the labor spin.

It's only incumbent regimes benefit from that line. The logic: if they're all the same why bother changing?

To those who are over it. I've found all my accquaintances are also over it. They're just angry, don't talk about it because they get angry, they've disengaged from all discussion, polls and surveys and are quietly waiting for the next election... which to all of them can't come soon enough.

Most of us have spent our lives raising our children to accept personal responsibility, to accept their mistakes and change the behaviours that caused those mistakes. Our PM is the epitome of everythging we've tried to teach our children not to be.