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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 ...

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'