"Shouldn't Tony Abbott's slush fund be subjected to the same media scrutiny Julia Gillard has received over the AWU scandal?"

Considering that the media organisations are interested in news that sell papers, let's compare the two.

One had a major fraud perpetrated by a couple of individuals, one of whom was sharing a bed and more with Juliar Gillard. Juliar had helped set up the legal entity that the crooks used to perpetrate the fraud, deliberately falsifying the purpose of the entity on the documents. This along with allegations that Juliar personally profited, and Juliar's story being continuously modified as more information came out, is the very essence of a juicy public interest story.

Abbott set up a legal fund for the purpose of de registering One Nation based on One Nation's incorrect application for registration. The court action, which was open and reported at the time, succeeded and the judgement still stands today. The subsequent criminal action was driven by the AG of Queensland, and overturned on a technicality. The only new news it that Ettridge is taking court action against Abbott for being mean to him in a case that apparently no lawyer will touch with a barge pole.

Rehashing information from an open court case years ago does not make good copy, no matter how much the labor tragics would like to fan this tiny ember into something bigger.

Michelle Grattan, the highly respected political editor
for The Age wrote an interesting Opinion piece about
illegal behaviour. She makes the point quite strongly
that Mr Abbott "does not bring an unblemished record to
the argument..."

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/abbott-has-his-own-slushy-history-20121201-2anjy.html

We'll see what the court decides in June as to whether
Mr Abbott has a case to answer and whether his campaign
against One Nation was indeed unlawful.

There were three of them heading up One Nation, Hanson, Oldfield and Etteridge.
How did Abbott's 'ex' associate Oldfield escape being sent to jail?

both the Coalition and Labor have betrayed all Australians.They have sold us out to the concept of Global Governance by bankers and the corporations they control

VERY TRUE

Neither the ALP, the LNP nor the Greens have any acquaintance with honour / decency / fair play / accountability.

"I personally considered Hanson to be a redneck ignoramus, not unlike her US equivalent, Sarah Palin....but, of course, you already knew that : )"

So, you are just using Hanson to AbbottAbbottAbbott.

"Michelle Grattan, the highly respected political editor
for The Age wrote an interesting Opinion piece about
illegal behaviour."

That sentence contains more oxymorons, misrepresentations and Tinkerbellism than any other I have read lately

Lexi,

I think Abbott going through the courts to achieve his ends is as legitimate a vehicle as possible (with a court judgement) and is far more transparent than the skulduggery surrounding the AWA scandal.

As far as Abbott's actions wrt the slush fund, none of it was illegal in any manner, and none of it has any relevance to the case that Ettridge has brought. I think Ettridge has more chance of falling pregnant than winning this case.

As Michelle Gratin said:

"there were clear differences between Abbott's slush fund, which was aimed at a broad political purpose (the destruction of Hanson and One Nation) and the limited self-serving objectives of the AWA body, let alone the vehicle for illegal behaviour that it became."