An anonymous source has just sent us a link to a purported statutory declaration by Robert Kernohan, former President of the Victorian Branch of the AWU, making serious allegations and implicating Julia Gillard in wrongdoing. It discusses all the fraud in the AWU in the 90's, implicates a lot of people for misappropriation of funds, details offers of ALP safe-seat preselection to silence people, and so on.
An extract of this was posted online a few days ago, and it was mentioned on 2UE radio, and it is my understanding that this statutory declaration formed the part of Glen Milne's column in The Australian, which was later removed with the Australian issuing a retraction, stating that elements in the piece relating t....
I must stress that I can not vouch for the accuracy of any of the claims made in this document. Crikey today has a lengthy piece setting out that the allegation that Julia Gillard lived in a house purchased by embezzled funds as "false", and attacked the credibility of the author. As such - as with all things - it should be treated with a healthy degree of skepticism at a minimum.
However, with the events of the last few days surrounding this document, and as someone who has always believed in transparancy and openness, I feel that, as it is an important part of the media story that this document should be made availiable to the public.
