The real story here is how a man who gets a magnificent tax payer funded pension way before the rest of us get our pension, is just so greedy.
Now he has, like so many ALP heavies, gone the "charity" route.
What that really means is pontificating, smarmy and unctuous attitude whilst avoiding tax.
New law should be no pension until you are at the same age as the rest of us have to be or you pay extra tax on your total income. Also no special little deals for judges etc.
The absolute unprincipled greed of the public service is a national disgrace.

Hi Belly,

Your dislike of TA clouds your judgment. I don’t know how so many from the left face each day when you wake up every morning with so much poison on your minds.

You have the audacity to point to TA for not serving the interests of “workers rights and trade unions”. Whilst the trade union leadership rips a cool $1.0m of the AWU members, Thompson takes $100,000 of the HSU members cash out of ATM’s, a further $30,000 for prostitutes and personal travel/entertainment. Williamson was caught doing a roaring trade with $20.0M of other peoples money, mostly HSU union members.

Thompson and Williamson also did a great job on money laundering $650,000 of HSU members money through Platinum Amex cards issued through the unions printing company, Gillands.

The CFMEU looks likely to have been using member contributions for internal union elections, paying bribes and funding illegal contracts.

In all this there has been NO complaints from union leaders on behalf of their members. The members just have to sit there an take it.

TA has demonstrated his concerns for membership monies going “walkabout” by calling a Royal Commission. That is called taking action to support workers rights and trade union memberships.

When are Bill Shorten and Co, along with the “blind faith, blind stupidity” followers like you going to ring, email fax your side of politics and tell them to do their job in protecting workers?

Bagging out the government for your lack of backbone is grand hypocrisy. Do something yourself to stop your people ripping off their own.

spindoc sorry bloke meant this link for the live SM one he deserved the I am sorry.
Bloke we clash often yet find a mutual respect for each other.
As that is the case would you mind reading the rest of this post,and judge me on it.

'I never ever can get on with JBower and take his post as aimed at me!
And a foul thing it is!
Once I would have launched into him .
But explore that post who if not me is it aimed at?
I started full time work at 12 years and ten months of age.
Had missed more school than I attended for most of the years before that.
See large country family we miss a lot more meals than we should have.
So ten bob[ten shillings] earned for helping mix cement was food in the house.
22 years on the RTA settled my wandering around from job to job.
And my passion for fair go in the work place saw me work up to eight more unpaid hours a day writing letters or publishing news letters , yep me! but I had a helper, in the end I got a bloke to prof read it first.
Worked sat and sunday unpaid long days faxing and readying others for mail outs.
Continued.

For reasons I can not go in to during almost all of my RTA working life I was raring a siblings kids we, mum but mainly me, paid for that.
But knowing I wanted to be the first to own a home in my mob[I got there!] I banked hard in my super fund on top of employers contribution.
Age 55 mentally dead as a result of working for public service I threw myself into an unknown blackness, driven by the black dog I took a redundancy.
Frightening for a man on his own and one never happy without a job
Legal for all at that age I bought my house.
Then got an unexpected job offer and again as legal, put $200 a week in to my super on top of my boss the union.
So in time for much the same reasons *finding my boss to be as he remains today a rude half wit only half committed to union member ship I left* black dog came with me,not wagging its tail.
So having worked from 12 years ten months to just short of 66 am I a bludger?
I hesitate reporting JBower, rarely have I ever done that.
I have been around others who do,*without doubt* troll.GY must weary of me,And others for crossing the line.
I await poor old JB showing me some one else was the target.
And remind every poster we all are not saints but surely we do have limits.
I am the new Belly and will not let myself explain to anyone again what I think of them unless in praise, be happy for that JB.

spindoc sorry read your post after my two.
Seems you spin your self in to a head spin over little things mate.
Find me a poster more insulted by Shortens gutless betrayal of the trade union movement.
He had a chance to be the fixer but took the stand Labor voters are stupid and he can tell us anything.
Too know if a hangman is needed for Tomson and the NSW Parliamentary filth I bags the job.
And if it helps I do not just dislike Abbott its his whole front bench too!~

Belly seems to have egg on face. He might care to comment on the maiden speech of Sen. John Madigan which to me made a lot of sense. Labour needs workers and workers need a voice.If unions are 'on the nose' they have none. Has Labour any chance of drawing an electoral majority without enlisting the various right of centre bloc which includes Family First D.L.P etc?