this issue raises many other issues
somewhere out there is a treasuror...[who didnt do his/her duty]
there is an auditer/accountant who didnt hold to account..and signed off on an audit

here we have the leader of the 'house' saying let work fair do its 'job'..[ie its been doing 'its job' for 2 YEARS]..on this case
HOW MANY MORE YEARS?

lest we forget..in uk we got kids in jail the next day
here we got OFFICIAL malfeasance...5 YEARS after the fact
and still we got nothing but spin

here we got mr albeingsleazy
saying let the process do its thing
WHAT IS WORK FAIRS 'thing'?

stall...investigate..YET NEVER instigate?

here we got a potential capital crime..where a union BAILS out a union organiser..being investigated by a union investigation unit
set up by the union party patsies..to serve union matters

thuis whole matter STINKS to high heaven
here we have a masive collusion to decieve YOU..!
you who pay your union DUES..so others can steal 100.000

so a fool with YOUR credit card
can use it as HIS private slush fund
so his pary can make 5 NEW TAXES..to pay for his LATEST cash card

while him and his cronies..can build an nbn MONOPOLY
install a new tax on air..
tax smokers..and subvert the right
to hold patent rights on YOUR own brand..

the list goes on
then we got a PRIVATE agrement of independants
willing to look the other way..JUST to get SPECIAL ADVANTAGES TOO

are we being served by this
or serviced like a dog in heat?

and then we got the party loyalists
my party right or wrong..[comeon you guys..YOU CANT TRUST ANYONE
who's first loyalty is to a party machine..[ran by faceless backdoor card holding oppertuinists]

talk about defending the indefensable
or taking the plank from THYNE own eyes FIRST

I am an ex trade union official.
Before that I was for 38 years a trade union on the job delegate.
I have always been a member of the Australian Workers Union, this country's best union.
I had been offered an officials job once before an amalgamation, twice after it.
If Guilty, and I have said this in other Shadow Minister threads, AND THAT I THINK HE IS he is a grub.
He will not be the only trade union official, to thieve from his membership.
They too, without exception are maggots.
My frankness never let me in to the very inner circles of the movement.
I live and die by my belief, the union movement exists only, in its members interests.
I paid my dues,10 times ten put the union in front of my self interests.
I left the job I loved, in the name of my members, and in the face of a Union boss unfit to wash the floors in his office.
But this thread is contemptuous, its purposes not to highlight this seeming criminal act from a contemptuous person.
The investigation is under way the law will have its way.
It is in the name of forcing an early election trying to convict with out trial this man.
In the name of JUSTICE? Tony Abbott broke his word and broke every rule of civilized parliamentary conduct.
In stopping Simon Crean going to a memorial for a great Australian
Margret Olly.
Look Australia, at the conduct of this opposition and at its followers, know this, they are not fit to rule under this man.
Know too, it was this mans union in 2008 that bought his conduct to notice not the lie SM uses.
A week ago Abbott taunted our PM for not facing Parliament, she was at the funeral of a former member!

Arjay, all you say is correct of course, it seems you and I are the only ones on this forum who attempt to discuss the disease rather than the symptoms. Unemployment, service industry jobs with no future, and a culture of state benefit supported youth will see the issues in the UK soon become apparent here, these are symptoms, the disease is FREE TRADE. Re the CSIRO what a partisan government joke.

Belly as a kid and later I recall all these Labor luminaries calling to my father’s house, Calwell, Hawke, Wran, Keating (never seen Goth) and all the union bosses at one time or another. These men and that Labor party have GONE. Your trade union movement has fled as well, the rank and file such as in branches as Balmain did have a major input into policy direction, and in fact you could say the branches wagged the tail of the political Labor dog. But that is not the case now; the unions have become the tool of the university educated FABIAN lawyers that run your party.

Let me remind you of a statement from a real Labor man Ben Chifley, when he spoke to the NSW ALP Conference in 1949;

"I try to think of the Labor movement, not as putting an extra sixpence into somebody’s pocket, or making somebody Prime Minister or Premier, but as a movement bringing something better to the people, better standards of living, and greater happiness to the mass of the people. We have a great objective—the light on the hill—which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labor movement would not be worth fighting for."

What party are you fighting for Belly?

Well,

It looks as though Thomson was a regular client of these brothels.

I wonder if he got everyday rewards?

SM
Have you appointed yourself the Judge and Jury on this. Clearly the case is now in the hands of NSW police and they can investigate the claims. Throw away comments as above are in the Alan Jones shock jock category.

I agree Pelican.

Also, the issue is whether or not Thomson misappropriated funds from the union NOT whether he frequented brothels.

Imagine how many pollies would be still standing if all politicians (of any political stripe) were expelled for using the services of a prostitute.

Of course, as has been pointed out by other posters before me, Shadow Minister is nothing more than a Liberal Party stooge, so maybe I, Pelican and others are expecting a little too much from the abilities, such as they are, of SM.