Larry Pickering is a pretty large character in Oz, so I s'pose he'd have some kind of back-up for this, given his liability for publishing it so openly.
lpickering.net/item/1499
JULIA IN DEEPER **** THAN CRAIG:
Thomson is involved in rorting $500,000 from the HSU.
Gillard is involved in rorting $1 million from the AWU.
To date, no attempt has been made by either union to recover one cent.
As a backbencher, Thomson had no clout with media.
As Prime Minister, Gillard used her clout to kill the story... and this is how she did it:
Bruce Wilson was an AWU heavy and Gillard's boyfriend at the time. He had been threatening developers in a thinly disguised, mob-style protection racket: Industrial peace for payment... up to $50,000 at a time.
The payments went straight to accounts Gillard had arranged while she was still working for the Left wing law firm, Slater & Gordon.
Gillard was into the scam up to her elbows and, as she was screwing Wilson at the time, pillow talk wasn't confined to her other sexual exploits including married father, and current, Trade Minister Craig Emerson and now Gold Coast spiv Tim Mathieson who departed the Coast leaving multiple unpaid debts.
Her part in the scam was rewarded with $50,000 of renovations to her house and a $25,000 account at a top fashion house (although one could be forgiven for thinking she never used it.)
The story broke and Gillard went into frenzied damage control.
When the dust settled, Gillard was still PM but ground-breaking journalists were sacked, News Ltd CEO, John Hartigan, resigned. Both Fairfax and News Ltd immediately spiked the story and pulled broadcasts, Andrew Bolt threatened to resign, Laurie Oakes was told, “Don't even think about it!” Blogs disappeared in a cloud of dust. Radio jocks were instructed to drop it.
ABC and 'The Australian' journalist, Glenn Milne, had spent months carefully documenting Gillard's devastating involvement. His story had been legalled and it ran in 'The Australian' on Monday, August 1st 2011. It was immediately pulled after one phone call from Gillard.
Slavish supporter of Gillard, the ABC, promptly sacked Milne.
Gillard continued a barrage of phone calls to the then CEO of News Ltd, John Hartigan and there was a meeting arranged at the offices of News Ltd. What exactly was said at that meeting may never be known but it certainly didn't resemble what Gillard said it was about.
The Leveson Hacking Inquiry was threatening to engulf Australia's media and Gillard saw her opportunity. She used Bob Brown as a verbal battering ram to threaten Fairfax and Murdoch with an “inquiry”. Gillard herself publicly entered the fray with her now famous utterance: “There are questions that need to be answered.” That statement was carefully crafted to put the fear of God into the media. After much questioning she has refused to say what those questions might be.
A Leveson-style inquiry here would mutilate the very core of Australia's media and their executives as it has, and is still doing, in the UK.
Fairfax and Murdoch executives, to put it bluntly, were ****ting themselves. Their indecent grappling for a piece of an ever-decreasing circulation market-share would have opened an ugly can of worms. A can I will let sit for another time.
So, this squalid deal was done but the sordid tale still bubbles below the surface. It reaches to the very heart of the Labor movement. We are witnessing only the tip of unions' mob-like protection rackets and their corrupt manipulation of our Parliaments.
This shameful story will eventually be told in full colour. It will be a long and agonising read.
But, in the interim, today's fetid political power holds sway.
LARRY PICKERING
It better be true otherwise Pickering will lose everything he owns. He will lose it anyway as the truth has nothing to do with defamation.
We can all cut/paste one-eyed political rants. Doesn't mean any of them hold water. ![]()
Careful! Larry Pickering is profoundly offensive
by Bernard Keane
Retired right-wing cartoonist Larry Pickering has portrayed Julia Gillard as a dildo-wielding rapist in a cartoon on his website. The illustrator, popular during the 1970s, continues to claim to be "Australia's most political and notorious cartoonist", although his solitary shtick appears to have been drawing public figures with genitals. Pickering has faded from view in recent years, and most recently hit the headlines courtesy of a fraud probe relating to a sports betting organisation.
In two cartoons on his website, Pickering shows Gillard wearing a strap-on d-ldo. One cartoon from a week ago shows Gillard apparently trying to charm Campbell Newman, accompanied by a figure that, judging by the comments, is intended to be Bob Brown, although it's hard to tell (it looks more like former right-wing senator and Treasury Secretary John Stone than Brown). "You're a naughty boy, Larry," says one commenter, in between misogynist abuse of Gillard. "Maybe Gillard in this caricature + Brown & the usual Union suspects with Australia on the ground in a rape scenario," another commenter urges Pickering.
Pickering appears to have taken up the inspired suggestion, because this week he portrayed Gillard - who has been on the end of a series of misogynistic abuse from anti-carbon tax protesters over the last year - about to anally penetrate a man strapped face down to a surgical table aided by Wayne Swan and Greg Combet, with the suggestion "it will help cool the planet". Gillard is called a "c-nt" in the comments below the cartoon.
Pickering has fans at right-wing website Menzies House, which ran one of his cartoons this week but who appear to have found portraying the PM as a r-pist too much, sticking with the more pedestrian "flogging a dead horse" theme.
www.crikey.com.au/2012/04/05/careful-larry-pickering-is-profoundly-offensive/
Old news, wasn't it 1995 when the allegation was made, under parliamentary privilege?
I believe the NCA investigated too
Edit
Here's some articles from the Australian Newspaper..
www.maynereport.com/articles/2011/08/29-1202-7942.html
so it seems the most realistic scenario of everything above is julia pegging a bloke with a strap on.
Did anyone else get wood? I'd be up for it Juia if you're reading this. PM me
Check this out Dinsdale, if you want to know the 'Truth'
independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/how-jackson-lawler-and-abbott-tangled-thomson-with-the-hsu,4131
I love the bit how Abbott's mate Lawler has his kids on the HSU payroll ![]()