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Michael Kroger interviews Ralph Blewitt. Michael Smith character assassination by Mark Latham backfires, hosed down by Shadow Attorney General George Brandis.  Parts 3 and 4 don't relate to this topic.

Denial and 'in Denial' Police and investigators usually don't need admissions from an accused to take action on a case, the accused is usually given the opportunity to reply to the allegations as a matter of courtesy. Frequently the response of the accused are something that the investigator can predict, especially experienced investigators. Most of the time I spent in that realm was interviewing people who knew 'the jig was up', some were repentant, some were silent, but the one that annoyed me was the accused that was in denial. They'd go to their death demanding that they only did "what anyone else would do", or that they were "being railroaded", or worse that what they did "was not wrong/illegal". As an investigator who had full knowledge of the 'brief of evidence' that was particularly frustrating, not that it made any difference, but it was sure to cause complications later on for the accused and the victims. Resp...

Julia falls down the Rabbit Hole - "Oh Mr Abbott, wait! please! " Portion of the redacted (now released) section of Julia Gillard's exit interview at Slater and Gordon and my thoughts: Reproduced (in part) from  http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2012/11/a-direct-result-of-bruce-wilsons-730-interview-thanks-again-bruce.html PG : Do you recall whether when it was necessary to argue the case with the, with the relevant Western Australian authority, whether you consulted anyone else in the firm as to what would or would not get, become acceptable or appropriate? JG : I once again don't recall talking to anybody else in the firm about it. PG : Beyond that, and it seems from the file -(#1)  that after that letter it was successfully accepted as an incorporated association and duly was created and presumably accounts were set up . I should ask did we have anything to do with the setting up of the accounts-(#2) or was that done by the officers of the incorporated...

What a lightweight performance by the ABC. See also  http://blog.kroey.net.au/2012/11/a-lazy-five-grand.html http://blog.kroey.net.au/2012/11/is-ralph-blewitt-lying.html http://blog.kroey.net.au/2012/11/she-did-nothing-wrong.html Don't prepare your interviewer properly,  don't ask any tough questions,  don't test the veracity of the answers,  sit down and make it look all homey, Interview the subject in his own home where he's most comfortable, don't ask any questions that aren't on the list. Despite the comfortable setting, Wilson on the ABC 7:30 Report last night still looked uncomfortable. He started off not remembering much and looking more like a simpleton than a criminal mastermind. He couldn't remember causing $5,000 to be deposited in his girlfriends' bank account, but he could specifically remember the reason why Gillard’s handwriting was on the application to incorporate the AWUWRA Association "She filled out on the, on the...

Reproduced directly from www.michaelsmithnews.com (could only see half of it and Crikey wanted me to join to view it at their blog). I'm sitting on the bed in Michael Smith's Melbourne hotel room and he has a question for me: "Do you feel dirty?" Do I feel "tainted", he wants to know, by venturing into "misogynist grubby nut-job headquarters"? Smith is the former talkback host who lost his job at Sydney radio station 2UE last year for trying to pursue a 16-year-old story about a union fraud committed by Julia Gillard's former boyfriend. Since then, the shock jock in exile has continued to play a pivotal -- if almost totally unacknowledged -- role in the resurrection of the story. And he's done it armed with nothing more than an iPhone, an internet connection, a ring binder bulging with documents and a conviction he's onto one of the greatest scandals in Australian political history. I'd assumed our interview, arranged ...

How blasé of  Julia Gillard yesterday to blow off $5000 allegedly deposited into her bank account from Bruce Wilson. "Now I do not have a memory of this money going into my account. However, it is a long time ago. And so I have taken steps to try and check. I specifically made inquiries of the Commonwealth Bank, the Commonwealth Bank was mentioned in the report, I did have a Commonwealth Bank account at the time. They have advised me it is not possible to get records from 17 years ago." Let's not forget how much $5000 was in 1995. You could buy a reasonable used car for $2000, or a tidy little home for just over $100,000. A new car was $10,000 to $15,000. A new '486' computer was about $1500-$2000 depending on if you wanted a color CRT monitor with it. If someone gave me $5000 in 1995 I'd definitely remember it. If you were earning $40,000 a year in 1995 you were doing really well, so $5000 ( TAX FREE?!?!) in 1995 was an awesome amount. So she can'...

Ralph Blewitt is the 'whistle blower' that has the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard very worried. Here he is interviewed on the ABC 7:30 Report. Calm, confident and concise is how I would describe his performance. I have spent many hours over a 20+ year career as a police officer sitting opposite crooks while they recounted their stories, and have learned to look for the little indicators that hint at when they are trying to deceive an investigator. None of those tell-tail signs were present during the Ralph Blewitt/7:30 Report interview. Now compare that with the response of the Australian Prime Minister during her press conference ( here ). She is evasive, some times her voice sounds quite stressed, she is constantly looking around the room (you can almost tell when she is looking at one of her cronies, the rest of the time she fails to 'engage' the interviewer by looking at them), her lips are frequently thin lines as she holds back something (I'm guessi...

Bruce Wilson cannot now, nor ever, help to prove Julia Gillard's innocence  he can however help with a smokescreen (what has occurred today) or in proving her guilt. Gillard, who has used a plethora of meaningless statements in her own defense still has serious questions to answer. Just so you know what a meaningless statement is, here are some and why they are meaningless: "I was young and naive" - Is a statement that carries no information in response to a question. "I / She did nothing wrong" - Is a generalisation that avoids answering a question. "These matters have already been dealt with" - Is a statement that is only effective if accurate , clearly in this case it is not. Besides, his statement sounds (to me) like it's from the same script writer that has been telling her what to say, don't you think?

Interesting Developments View on Michael Smith News' blog ( audio ) The complete 'public' brief is available there .

That makes a total of Four official records that have gone missing in relation to this:" Harry Nowicki. THE federal opposition has called for an urgent investigation after the disappearance of more documents at the centre of the Australian Workers Union slush fund scandal, including key Federal Court files. Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop has urged police intervention unless Queensland court records relating to a bid in the mid-1990s to recover money from the disgraced former boyfriend of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and his associates are quickly found. And former industrial lawyer Harry Nowicki has told The Age a box of records is also missing from the New South Wales Federal Court registry, including a crucial affidavit and supporting documents assembled by AWU whistleblower and now Fair Work Australia commissioner Ian Cambridge. Mr Nowicki said the NSW documents, which could not be located by court staff when he visited Sydney in September, were also...

Michael Smith News : Michael Smith is an ex-cop, journalist, radio presenter who, when he was about to air a story about the Australian PM juLIAR Gillard, had the show cancelled. His website is full of his investigation into the "AWU Scandal" which implicates the Australian PM in some serious allegation which she will not answer. Plenty of document about the story on this site, well worth spending time to acquaint yourself with. 'via Blog this'