Belly said;
Bazz believe me, you got that wrong.

You got me puzzled, you said I had it wrong and then went on to show how I was right anyway !

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/time-to-return-power-to-alp-branch-members-rudd-20121205-2aud3.html
This link is not off topic.
Those behind the Rudd dumping, and stopping true change in my party.
Are from a trade Union, my trade union, faction heads?
Far more than that!
No replica of the NSW filth, but as much in control of my party.
Assisted by the Sussex Street filth, *THAT WAS, NOT IS* in my state.
Victorian right NSW right QLD strength, Big Bill, no more than ten men in all!
Those ten held/hold still the real power of all members in NSW/QLD/VIC there is the heart of my problem.
I am in good company saying it must end.
I demand a stronger cleaner more accountable party and union movement.
And the death of that swear word solidarity, it covers up criminals child sex offenders and? it betrays every member of both groups.
A once proud word twisted to become something far from its once meaning.
Paul 1405, it is not longer clear if you are joking or not.
Norm Galliger?
What a grub, a maggot, the thing was never a man, extremist left who took bribes and sold his membership out.
No better than HSU.

Belly my china, remember the BLF and Normie Gallagher?

I vividly remember my father’s rage when the Labor government deregistered it in the mid 1980’s. That union should have a statue erected for the civil duty it engendered in saving historical Sydney. Norm was caught supposedly getting free construction materials for a house he was building from large construction companies.

The first trial saw a verdict of guilty, but the jurors complained that they were coerced into finding him guilty. The appeal dismissed the verdict. We all know who wanted Normie gone, the big end of town, they got rid of Jack because he was getting in the way of them making outrageous amounts of money.

The old Labor party hung Normie for this supposed indiscretion. The current lot that call themselves Labor let the likes of Thomson and Williamson run the union for their own benefit.

Did you see John Faulkner’s comment on Sussex Street? As you and I know it has stunk for a decade….there might just be a chance of a popular movement to return Labor to their core values and flush the party of the immoral self serving lawyers and businessmen that hijacked it

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/labor-left-apologises-over-macdonald-20121205-2auzh.html
Sonofgloin well worth reading the other posts.
If not to keep up just to see what others are saying, I posted links including the one you speak of.
Other should not fall for the I loved Norm gushing.
He in part, enforced the need for factions.
Extremist left, on the job Bully, he and his ilk had to be contained, a party wanting to govern must want to do so for most not a minority.
I had no idea so much support for the stand I have taken would come from so many in both my party and the union movement.
But am happy it has,it is time for the clean out, no rebuilding can start before it.
I want it noted my support is not for Abbott,s witch hunt on Gillard.
I dislike them both equally.
And am considering my view on her knife men.
But the mud throwing is not supported by evidence.
In her case, she could well be guilty, nothing she does or says can be trusted.
But I can see why, other than being silly, she did no wrong.
Bazz sorry I was referring to your words Liberals are less likly to have factions or do criminal things.
Factions rule and the crimes are for more money.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2012/12/05/08/00/powerbrokers-should-not-dictate-to-mps
Yet another bright and shining star lights up my world.
Readers could do worse than read my 4 posted links.
A dream may yet come true.
True honest reform.
Turning the power broker Stallions in to Geldings!
Returning both party/unions, remember they are linked.
To the reason they exist, members.
Swan, along with others with blood on their hands decry the need for reform.
In doing so they become the needed dirt before the broom.

individual,

Remember when the Air Traffic Controllers were striking and the PM called in the Air Force - the only time the military was ever used as strike breakers?

It was the former head of the ACTU, Bob Hawke - the same Labor PM who organised "the Accord" which effectively stopped union wage growth for several years.

I think the notion of the ALP being soley controlled by unions is somewhat overstated.

All corruption should be investigated and charges laid - irrespective of whether it comes from Trade Unions, Corporations or individuals.

Come to think of it, why aren't all small businesses investigated? Shonky operators are exposed almost daily on those tabloid "current affairs" shows.

Or big businesses that suddenly go into liquidation, leaving huge debts while their Owners/Directors walk off with stuffed pockets?

Or the financial sector that caused the GFC but nobody was ever charged?

Or is this a politically-based question only?