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FATAL ATTRACTION: HR Nicholls Society risks its brand for a night of cheap thrills with Kathy Jackson
A significant fight in the next government will be around the extent to which it will get stuck into workplace law reform. Despite whatever faux demonisation some in the labour movement will be keen on, Tony Abbott is notoriously not very sympathetic. Aside from his own, vaguely pro-union views, Abbott has seen the political consequences of grabbing onto the “third-rail” of Australian politics, labour market deregulation. Despite a thumping majority in 2004, it led to his beloved John Howard being unceremoniously turfed out in 2007. Abbott’s just not interested, Liberal MPs tell VEXNEWS, already looking back nostalgically on Howard’s way.
So, the HR Nicholls Society could have played an important role for those in the Liberal party room who champion limited government and less regulation. VEXNEWS is told that’s precisely why the organisation was revived a couple of years ago, to attempt to re-address those issues within a Liberal party that is reform-fatigued after the epic political failure of Workchoices (labour market reform numbering 1500 pages of regulation, actually), to provide moral and research support for those MPs keen on addressing the issues.
HR NICHOLLS SOCIETY IMPORTANT PART OF NATIONAL DEBATE
We like these big debates, and we think groups like HR Nicholls, even the annoying GetUp! are important in ensuring it’s not just politicians or those with a vested financial interest actively participating in our national arguments.
As a result, we think it’s a terrible shame the HR Nicholls Society risked its reputation by hosting the demonstrably corrupt and shamelessly hypocritical suspended millionaire union boss Kathy Jackson, addressing their annual dinner, no less, essentially endorsing her activities and role in the nearly destroyed union, if not her views.
A CHAMPION OF GREED
Jackson’s not a deep thinker but to the extent she’d have considered opinions on these matters, she’d be a corporatist, as long as she gets to sit at the front of the plane. She’s certainly no champion of the free market, her union in Victoria has been utterly incapable of delivering anything to its members, who are among the worst-paid hospital workers in the country (despite having the best-paid officials) even in the highly protected, statutory monopoly market-place in which it operates. One union insider described the HSU:
“They are fattest and weakest beast in the workplace jungle, a toothless, fat, lazy tiger with the ethical approach of the jackal and hyena (some may consider this a reference to Marco Bolano, Jackson’s now suspended Deputy General Secretary who was apparently on nearly $4000 per week salary despite being barely literate).”
MEMBERS WORRY
Equally troubled, an active supporter of the HR Nicholls Society expressed distress about the sorry event to VEXNEWS last night:
“No, it’s not a good look, I agree. While we’re appreciative she’s tried to blow up Craig Thomson and unseat this terrible government, I personally think that’s where it should end. You’ve shown pictures of her posing with Noam Chomsky, there are credible allegations against her that she hasn’t ever rebutted so I think she’s not really the right image (for the HR Nicholls Society). Controversy is good but the leadership of that union is not greatly different from an organised crime syndicate, in their intention, without the violence (VEXNEWS: Actually there has been violence at union meetings). Maybe next year, to fully embrace the controversial attention some crave, we could have ‘industrial conciliator’ Mick Gatto come and discuss his experiences on the cutting edge of industrial relations…”
UNPROTECTED ACTION WITH KATHY JACKSON
The discredited union boss-hog Kathy Jackson’s willingness to address the group was explained surprisingly candidly by their guest of dishonour, no-one else wants to hear from her these days. That’s not because she’s a truth-speaking whistle-blower, it’s because those who know her best, those intimately familiar with her record and performance and breathtaking hypocrisy find the whole act as obscene as a Pattaya ping-pong performance, certainly similarly requiring a high level of flexibility and gymnastic skill.
Until yesterday afternoon when Jackson was suspended from her office as HSUeast executive president, she was the second-highest-paid union official in Australia, behind only Mike Williamson, at her peak on $270,000 plus $80,000 board fees, plus luxury Volvo SUV, plus a wide-range of unexplained, undocumented payments that appear to be in the multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars.
HAVING A LARF
The vision of her making the effort to charmingly laugh at former Liberal Workplace Relations Minister and Maritime union-buster Peter Reith’s undoubtedly hilarious after-dinner whispered banter was surely enough to put delegates off their petits-fours. Perhaps he was reminiscing about how Tony Abbott encouraged him to run for the federal Liberal party presidency but ended up publicly voting for former Victorian Treasurer Alan Stockdale. Good times.
Certainly, the standing ovation for Wacko Jacko’s oratorial efforts was enforced with a nauseating Soviet-style efficiency and strictness at the gathering, we hear, led by her Jackson’s free counsel Stuart Wood SC, a former champagne socialist at Ormond College, Melbourne University until ideologically cleansed at the rough, tough law firm Freehills, whose splendid art collection is itself a celebration of the glories of the free market. Wood has gone on to become one of the leading boss’s barristers in the Victorian bar. Naturally, he has been sympathetic to Kathy Jackson, a multi-millionaire property owner who was, from one way of looking at it, merely made the most of her opportunities to profit from the efforts of labour, without excessive regard for regulation. By her own pilfering, Ms Jackson, has indeed become an unusual champion of the free market. Whether it’s been lavish overseas travel, childcare, household bills, luxury automobiles or whatever, it’s all been ‘free’ for her. Not exactly what Milton Friedman had in mind, but any port in a storm, might be the HR Nicholls Society’s logic.
But seriously, should the current Fair Work Australia civil charges against Jackson eventually be supplemented with criminal charges relating to her administration of the HSU, we think the mostly good people behind the HR Nicholls Society will have reason to reflect – as no doubt many others have before – that spending just one wild night with Kathy Jackson was perhaps not the good idea it had initially seemed.
UPDATE: A copy of her speech is now available. It has been rightly condemned by our bearded friend, inner-urban blogger Andrew Crook as an outrageous humbug, chock full of hypocrisy about trade union campaign finance, without mentioning the part where she obtained many hundreds of thousands of dollars to run her own union election campaigns. How does she sleep at night?
Not so soundly, it seems.
In her remarks, the previously troubled union boss talks openly about what ails her.
She told the audience:
I want to finish on a personal note. I am not Joan of Arc. I am not a political virgin…
Peter Reith woke up at that point.
She continued:
The only thing perhaps I have in common with Joan of Arc is that I did suffer a bout of psychiatric illness and the historical consensus now is that she frequently did. But a period of illness, psychiatric or otherwise, brings one advantage – it focuses one’s attention on the things that are really important. So when I left hospital I made a very conscious decision to be unpolitic – to say what I think, do what I think is the right thing and let the devil take the hindmost.
It does rather seem from our vantage point that in fact the devil took the luxury Volvo SUV. Although with the Administrator appointed, that will have to be returned to the union – and sold for the benefit of members in the same manner as the auction of Imelda Marcos’s shoes – some time this week.
UPDATE: 
Jackson’s assertions outlined in today’s Financial Review that union democracy is a sham is much more the confession than she probably ever realised.
Ms Jackson is certainly not what she pretends to be. An elite private school girl, who stumbled into Labor politics at Uni, whose only job has been at the HSU (or its predecessors). She’s never worked in a hospital, never worked in the health sector at all. She has been a key beneficiary of the process of which she now complains. In some respects she’s right, incumbents (like her) have been protected by phenomenon like union staff social clubs that *voluntarily* (a generous use of the word) dock staff salaries in case there’s an election challenge from the rank and file or a rival grouping. The money can be overwhelming. It’s an issue that needs examination by someone’s whose sincerity is not so much questioned as completely and utterly non-existent.
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Watch some of this on TV last night the meeting seemed full of old former MP’s and was very blokey. Was Kathy Jackson the only woman in the room?
Williamson gave her a hundred large to use in her Victorian elections. He must not have known that she disapproved of this sort of funding when she was using it to get her winning (one third of members) votes down there. Look forward to her giving back the money.
The daughter of working class greeks, Ms Jackson went to school at Mandeville Hall. Perhaps she is still trying to fit in
Sen. David Feeney, oh dear oh dear, bye bye.
..’mostly good people behind the HR Nicholls Society’…
This group just wants to reduce Australian wages and union power…how can an even vaguely Labor website call them ‘mostly good’.
As for whacko jacko…crikes she makes Latham look balanced…
According to the Age, Kathy told the boys at the HR Nicholls she was “not a political virgin” and it was good to see she gave them everything they wanted.
What a great hero of the workers Kathy has turned out to be – insisting that unions be subject to even more Government regulation.
Kathy is nothing but a prostitute of the Liberal party
Didn’t Kathy Jackson benefit from a Union slush fund? For years?? Didn’t she benefit from Labor Unity hacks (organised by now Senator David Feeney) making phone calls and doing mailouts for her and Jeff’s HSU elections??? Does this woman have no shame????
Maybe we’ve got this all wrong and Kathy is no treacherous mole. Maybe Kathy was there to report back to Liberty Sanger, a partner at Morris Blackburn, the well-known Labor Law firm (and David Feeney’s wife) on the anti-union HR Nicholls Society. As Kathy said in The Australian Magazine article “Liberty is my best friend and lawyer”. Surely she wouldn’t betray her, or the Union movement which has fed and housed her for decades.
Hasn’t Kathy Jackson changed her tune on Bill Shorten? It was laughingly pointed out at many State Conferences that she was like a blushing, giggling school girl in his presence. Did he reject her and she’s aged from school girl to woman scorned?
The face is looking good, Kathy. Let us know your new credit card details at your next appointment.
Kathy is too dumb to be a double agent she’s just shown her true colors . She a cross between a sellout and a scab. And now she’s just had her phone cut . No more ripping the HSU off for her I wonder what she will do ?
What a disgrace this woman is. Wasn’t that failed former Union official Grace Collier also on the speakers list this year.Both of these cretins make me seriously ill.
She’ll soon be available to take up a position on the board of of a company run by HR Nicholls types. Sure there’ll queues wanting her running their affairs.
anne – Nicola Roxon is an MLC Kew old girl but she is one of the very few sane members of the Gillard Government.
I like Kathy Jackson description of Bill Shorten in ABC News Radio this morning.
what a disgusting greasy
we should catch up kathy.
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KJ will always chase a cockatoo.
Not unless the till is secure.
Kathy Jackson is a sleaze bag. Would not trust her no matter what. Bitch
At the very least Kathy needs to be expelled from the ALP for being a SCAB
So she wants Govt to put unions under ASIC Governance?? Is this after she has bled the union dry from fraud invoices, triusering obscene salaries for herself and family members, set up companies neranto to invoice the union and “double dip” , pay the salary of phantom employees AKA Mr Rob Elliot paid $150 not to turn up , buy shiny sports cars for ex hubby Jeff to keep him sweet….Only a fantasist like Kathy can come up with that chestnut. I’ve run a crime syndicate, now i want laws….
Re update: When’s the auction? Don’t suppose HSU members will get preferential treatment for a change?
Kathy Jackson and her side kick Marco ‘I can’t speak proper English’ Bolano are both dogs of the highest order. At least they have both been now cut of from further using any HSU property and members can no longer call them and hear their poisonous take on the corruption which has taken place in this Union for many years lead under the reign of Kathy ‘ I’m worth millions’ Jackson.
She was in the Volvo heading to the outer Melbourne suburb of Damascus. And as she journeyed, it came to pass that she drew nigh unto Damascus: and suddenly there shone round about her a light out of heaven: and she fell out of the Volvo, and heard a voice saying unto her, Kathy, Kathy why persecutest thou me? And she said, Who art thou? And he said, I am HR Nicholls whom thou persecutest: but rise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. And the HSU dupes that journeyed with her stood speechless, hearing the voice, but beholding no man. And Kathy arose from the earth; and when her eyes were opened, she saw nothing; and they led her by the hand, and brought her into Damascus. And she was three days without hairdresser and credit card. And from that day on she honored HR Nicholls and asked his forgiveness and became unpolitical and let the devil take the hindmost which happened to be the HSU members.
The H.R. Nichols society is nothing more than a hunting party, out to shoot down the rights of Australian workers. And here we have Kathy Jackson, turncoat extraordinaire, oiling their barrels and fine tuning their sights.
Oh deary me I’ve got Silly Tilley, Fruit Loop Shaw, Porky Pie Ryan, RDR let’s not go there again, Wreford whistle and she drop em, Rocket Scientist Miller just to name a few. Why do they call me Cottees Kate?
http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-national/jackson-says-kids-traumatised-by-hsu-20120613-20a3c.html
SMH reports KAthy JAckson says her kids have been traumatised by HSU.
She also says On Wednesday Ms Jackson said her mobile phone had been disconnected and she had been ordered to return her union car.
“(My phone has) been disconnected and I’ll have to deliver it back to the office by Friday, and my car, and all my other possessions I have that belong to the HSU,” she told Fairfax Radio.
Two things Kathy, they are not you possessions, they belong to the HSU!
And hey I think it would take more than this to traumatise your kids, having witnessed some pretty nasty things first hand.
Anybody remember husband No. 1 – the young greek police officer she left after she realised Jeff might be able to help her achieve her lofty ambitions.
And then after ruining Jeff’s marriage, she married him and took what she wanted to get as far as she could.
Then she met Lawler and felt she could achieve more, so she dumped Jeff to continue her climb!
She had one ambitions, take over HSUeast, but it seems nine months down the track she may be up the creek so to speak.
All your doing Kathy, congratulations!
Kathy reports in SMH that the HSU situation has left her children traumatised.
She should have thought about this before she started.
And – don’t they spend most of their time with Jeff, she is always in Sydney!
Does anybody remember her first husband, the young Greek police officer she dumped big time for Jeff?
I get it – she is pretty traumatising
Just heard grabs of Kathy Jackson’s speech to the HR Nicoholls Society on the radio. All I can say is OMG, how dumb did she sound, how embarrassing. Couldn’t even pronounce the word ‘ think’ properly, instead she uttered a word ‘ finks ‘, what ever that means. Seems to have attended the same speech pathologist that former HSU stand over man and now un-employed, dumbarse Marco Bolano sought advice from. My poor Kathy, wake up to yourself, you have seriously lost the plot and are only making you look more ridicules and thus adversely affecting your children, think of that before you open your mouth publicly in future.
Traumatised?? Her kids have NEVER been her priority.
The members in Vic are traumatised!
You should be ashamed Kathy, you kids spend 90% of their time with Jeff yet you drag into your pathetic game, go away bitch
“She was in the Volvo heading to the outer Melbourne suburb of Damascus”.
(And so it happened)
LOL.
Kathy has never been an intellectual heavyweight, judging by that mumbling speech , greater effort was put into her appearance .
Still the Libs love a try-hard . Both Jackson and mirabella share so much vile commonalities both have tried so desperately hard at all costs to gain acceptance in the blue-blood world of Conservatives. and failed.
Proof you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Well done KJ, you’ve done it again…shown your true colours, shafting your mates to protect your own pathetic self.
Bet your mate Feeney is sweating tonight after you’ve highlighted Shortons involvement in the 2009 elections….Feeneys office was the hub of the campaign manager Mr Donnelly.
Karma is coming your way hahahaha
She looked good and would have made sense to the wider public. And facts are that she has deliciously shafted Thomson like a spit roast. He looks a complete fool.
The public love clear winners and losers and it’s pretty clear who won and lost.
She is going to go far, and I see some iconic role, dept or public funded title, australian woman of the year etc being anointed for her courage, integrity, consistency and dedication to exposing labor and union corruption.
Sid, you are so sad, she will be the biggest loser!
Of course the kids are traumatised, they can’t have casual employment with Vic No. 3
“It’s quite traumatic for the children so I’m going to have to reassess where I’m going.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/jackson-says-kids-traumatised-by-hsu/story-e6frfku0-1226394722115#ixzz1xfZHvbKE
She does not say the kids have been traumatised, she doesn’t actually say the HSU sage has been, so what has really been “quite traumatic” for Ms Jacksons kids?
Anyone got a job?
Why would you take your children to the court hearing , she really could not care less about anyone other than herself.
Who would have thought i would still have my job and you have lost yours . Should have sacked me when you had the chance
Sid , you have a very low opinion of the wider public, but then you obviously judge them by your own lack of standards.
CT may well have the last laugh, as the law catches up with KJ, and if you truly believe what you wrote, then her and you will look like the complete fools that you both are.
If you don’t jump ship soon, like the smarter members of the LNP and your other right wing mates, you will find it a very lonely place on the good ship KJ Titanic.
I know her 1st husband….great guy…her dumping him was the best thing that could have happened to him…she only would have ruined his life….karma coming your way Kathy koukouvaos!!!!!
Pissy you’ve just spurted all over my back.
I dont know if I am coming or going,until Iwas told to clear my desk, trouble is I can not see it as their is a cloud around it. Every cloud has a silver lining, mate,see you at Centre Link.
The union movement is full of poorly educated quite illiterate people who are very easy prey for employers and the right wing idealogues. This HSU Scandal is just the tip of the iceberg in regards to the rorts in unions and it really is very difficult for anyone at a low level in unions to take any action at all. Tell me how does say a concerned Organiser in a union get legal funding to take matters of union governance of fraud to the Federal Court? The one good thing Kathy Jackson has done is peel back some layers and like with all change I think you will see more and more people within unions willing to speak out and take action. As a union person I agree with Kathy that the changes to the FWA (Registered Organisations) changes do not go far enough and education for some of the morons as to their responsibilities will be absolutely wasted.
The post script to this article is where the news is. Extortion of enthusiastic young activists who genuinely believe in the cause of organised labour where entry into ‘social club’ via tithing employees for the slush fund for secretaries re-election to ensure employment following six month probation is common practice. Poor activist once a struggling student with ideals gets, suddenly a car, a phone, a fuel card, perhaps the odd intrastate trip or even becomes intermittently ‘famous’ via a regional newspaper for orgainising a rally, thinks its all worth it to keep lining the pockets by tithing their secretary tax free re-election fund. extortion by any objective reckoning needs closer examination.
Kathy Jackson. Don’t use your kids you pathetic piece of shit. They are traumatized all because of you. What about children of Craig Thomson?
Anon,
Well said!
For someone who supposedly went to Loreto Mandeville Hall, a pretty poor speaker. But still doesn’t sound anywhere near as bogan as Gillard.
What keeps going around and around in my brain is “Instant Karmá’s gunna get you”.
I can’t find one skerrick of sympathy for this ghastly thieving troll and scab.
Perhaps KJ should have thought about her children(a rare occurance for her) before she became a media whore and used the media as judge & jury.
Now that it apperas there is some real scrutiny on her own very troublesome methods of administering and running a union , she cries out about the “trauma’ .
Kathy think of all the innocent people you have tarnished, lives you’ve wrecked , and people who
s reputation & the their families you’ve invited the same trauma?
You reap what you sow
Well said anonymous
Kathy has brought this on herself.
There were relevant investigations in place and she could have stepped back and let the authorities do their job.
But she wanted bigger things and only had her own interests in mind.
Is she still receiving $150K with perks as National Secretary. That would member HSU members money?
Jackson‘s comment re alleged documents being supplied to the Vic Police:
She has argued that leaked documents dealing with the Victoria No. 3 branch were being circulated by her opponents in the HSU and the Labor Party and that she had nothing to hide. “I have spoken to the cops about it . . . it’s all just crap,” she told the Financial Review.
Very eloquent, not surprising she was asked to speak at H R Nicholls.
This piece of snivelling shit turncoat, now using her kids? She needs counselling and another country to live in. She claimed that she was late for a meeting because she had to go and buy her kids some shoes because her husband dropped them off without their shoes at her place. WTF have her kids only got one pair of shoes each?
How appropriate that hypocrite derives from the from the Greek hupokritēs
i believe that Kathy Jackson was most disappointed – she thought she was spending the night with people in her salary range – but most of the members of the society are would-bes-if they-could-bes
Kathy Jackson and Marco Balano are true patriots.
I thought her impersonation of Effie from Acropolis Now was fantastic. May be a new career in the offing…
Can some one please advise if KJ is still receiving the $150K from her ‘other’ HSU role?
A night with kathy is with someone from Fair Work Australia who has niple piercing. Now that is something nobody has to see.
Awmagods! I fink da Haitch-esh-yooo is brokens! How embarrashments! I’ll take Firty pieces of silver, fanks, Mista Nicholls!
Yes Kathy is still receiving $150k, the staff are still backing her, btw nipple piercings are hot
Kathy is a SCAB
After several remedial English classes and some cheap n nasty pearls, kathy has been transposed from Union fraud to Conservatives union friend with benefits .
Will jackson be sacked from her 150k position? Are those staff who are backing her the friends with benefits?
But a great rack she has
Not twelve months ago the HRN Society was a moribund and irrelevant anachronism, but thanks to the efforts of a certain Mr Hanke they are now grabbing front page headlines. If nothing else, Mr Hanke has dealt them back into the IR game which has been conspicuously vacated by employer groups who are next to useless in taking up the IR fight to the government. Credit where credit is due, good work Mr Hanke.
“twelve months ago the HRN Society was a moribund and irrelevant anachronism”.
Of course it was – So am I.
hSU members must be proud that this rat faced mole is now Reiths bitch Sold them out without a blink of an eye
It looks as though Mr. Reith is “pissing in Jackos’ pocket”…One should warn her : “The road between Flattery and Mockery is very short and very straight”. But I suspect the good intent would be wasted on a scab!
Even old man Reithy is thrusting into Kathy’s genitals.
Nick Rees (head of labor’s “dirt unit”) himself forced to flee the sinking ship as the dirt files implode on him.
He was told to crank up the smear and dirt in prep for a forced election in coming months as Gillard is going to take her rat infested corrupted rotten sorry little ship of fools onto the rocks – rather than have yet another challenge or be tapped on the shoulder.
So what does Nick Rees, their head strategist and dirt file handler for labor do ? He jumps !
Now it may be he doesn’t think there is enough dirt or smear in the world to save labor.
Or it may be that the labor dirt (Gillard AWU Bruce Morton Wilson collusion to deceive being revealed), new allegations on Thomson, Conroy’s indiscretions, the stuff on Roxon and Wong coming out, it’s all beyond saving.
So their Head Strategist himself has ratted and jumped ship to save himself.
Labor has maybe 3 months left and then it’s all over and we, you and me, will have to pay hundreds of billions for decades to fix up the mess they have made.
KJ in the photo even looks like Reith’s progeny.
She is all shiny faced and happy in being accepted as one of them rather than one of us. It reminds me of the ending in Animal Farm. (Thomson as horse? off to the knackers.)
Mark el, you poor demented fool.
If you think that that holding politicians to account for things that they have stated in their past, or making sure that all financial dealings are reported, is digging up dirt, then you must be really down on trying to destroy a person by lies deceit and innuendo based on unproven accusations, for your own personal ambition.
Oh wait thats different because Abbot and his cronies did it, until the wheels started to fall off.
If you want to see what life would be like under your hero Abbot, just look at what is happening in NSW, VIC and already starting in QLD, and you have the nerve to continue to rant about Gillards lies.
She is a saint compared to these LNP premiers!
“I have spoken to the cops about it . . . it’s all just crap,” she told the Financial Review.
That is KJ’s response to a Vic Police investigation.
I’ll simply say ‘be scared Kathy, be very, very scared.”
SERGE KNEZEVIC
The sight of former Health Services Union national secretary Kathy Jackson addressing the H R Nicholls Society (“Kathy Jackson still has questions to answer”, AFR, June 14) was nothing more than an attempt to emasculate the union movement.
Why is it that the HR Nicholls Society conveniently forgets HIH, Storm Financial, Ansett, Opes Prime, Allco, Strathfield, Lehman Brothers, Enron and many others when the issue of misuse of funds and poor governance is raised?
The idea that financial waste, mismanagement and misappropriation are only found in a union is absurd – take a look at any Australian corporation and you will find the same ills.
As for Jackson: no representative of the worker should share the stage with an organisation that has the sole aim of making employees work longer for less with a total disregard for conditions and social wellbeing.
well said,
Well said
Kathy never saw the kids – Jeff and her mother looked after them. She would complain about them at the office daily (e.g. she used to say her daughter was stupid). When her mother started getting too frail, and she and Jeff had separated, she sent them to board at Geelong Grammar. What a joke she is. It’s like she looked around and thought, what else is here that I haven’t used yet? Oh, the kids! If she does take them out of boarding school to go to the Federal Court today, I’ll be surprised if she remembers what they look like when she picks them up.
The Feeneys is still helping Jackson to bring down the ALP
Leave the Jackson children lane, they are having a hard time at school. Self centred Kathy and her neglect is enough to deal with.
The kids didn’t get to choose their mother – ok.
But the mother has destroyed so many lives with total disdain and lack of concern for the outcome children involved or not.
She doesn’t care about hers, why should we?
A radio interview of Jackson by bearded buffoon Paul Murray was anticipating that some ‘unfair’ accusations against her were in the msm pipeline.
It is okay for her to make allegations without any hard evidence but when it turns around it is “unfair”.
Unfair, but true!
i knew Kathy Koukouvaos (now Jackson) at University and i can attest to Kathy being a politically active and extremely determined young woman. Kathy was committed to doing whatever was required to make a point/send her message.
i have no grudges (actually as a 20 year old she was a typical mid-late 1980′s Uni student), but i see that her take no prisoners/crush the enemy philosophy remains in tact – these days the stakes are higher is all.
the HR Nicholls thing is nothing more than Kath returning to her Loreto Mandeville Hall big end of town privlidged exclusive private (did i mention very expensive?) secondary schooling attitudes – pretty difficult to erase the programming of such institutions (just look at where the federal ALP has ended up).
having read the speech i have to admit that if the situation with … HSUeast, Lawler, Williamson, Thomson, Volvo AWD’s, child care and consultancy fees etc … was not going on (thus depreciating value to the extent that it will be seen – arguably quite rightly – as contrived and hypocritical), i have to concede that it’s not a bad speech in construction, philosophical ideals and content … perhaps a little naive to deliver it to HR Nic & friends … rather than shoot the messenger, perhaps we should recognise and promote the positives (and i’m not saying go easy on Kathy … that has nothing to do with it … she wouldn’t if roles were reversed).
So much fuss made by, and over, a person of yawn-inducing mediocrity. Only the shrillness of the whistle and the prospect of being splattered from her bucket of manure keeps people awake.
Owen
Kathy would not have written the speech – she is Lawler’s puppet!
Awmagods! I’m so unwell in da head! Da kids are so hungrys! I fink i might skip court and go get some fish fingers from Mista Nicholls for da kids! Problem solved! Where’s my lawyers?! Where’s my Volvos? Aw, dats right, i dont have a jobs anymore!
Ah hahahahaha!
Poor Kathy is unwell perhalps youve got a tummy ache after spewing lies and bile for the past 6 months and now ratting out to the Libs and now the HR Nicholls
You a stupid rat and wont be forgiven for bringing down the HSU
So Kathy was right as rain to commit to the HR Nicholls gig when she could have been spending quality time with her children . One word , Priorities .Pouring acid on unions or spend time with my kids? Tough decision is it Kathy?
Using her kids to try to lever an adjournment out of the federal court? Unless someone had her in a headlock in a stairwell somewhere, what was stopping her from seeing her kids? The limelight and her sordid ambitions? What a low life!
Okay, youse bastards on here, I’m going to sue youse all. That’s right, every fucking one of youse!
The great irony of the LNP machinations is that the heros enlisted to take down the government , ie Jackson and Ashby, are looking more and more likely to take down substantial chunks of the LNP, as the wheels fall off, the axels dig in and send the entire contents of the shit cart into the ever increasing hole that they have dug for themselves.
And good riddance.
I hope the LNP asked for a doctor certificate or a second opinion..Prove your sick..Remember thomson..They wanted the old rubber glove test, Cat Scan, Etc, to ensure he was unwell..So are the LNP sure she is sick..have they asked for a second opinion..or is it only NON LNP supporters need to comply..lol
Michael Sukkar won Liberal Party preselection for the seat of Deakin. The final round was a contest between John Pesutto and Michael Sukkar.
Pesutto performed very well but his close links with Ted cost him dearly.
Any results yet re Liberal Party preselection in Corangamite?
Henderson won
Henderson won.
Radio news claimes Hendo, Anon, 17.42. [Get your guts into gear, Andy!]
Sarah Henderson won Corrangamite narrowly beating Rod Knockles.
But who the hell is Michael Sukkar ???
Most Liberals have never heard of him and he has cleansed personal information and links with the party whcih is a closely guarded secret!
So long as that nasty man, Rod Nockles, did not win.
Did you see the article by respected opinion writer Peter Van Onselen on Saturday who said that Tony Abbott needs to sack Kevin ANdrews even before he gets rid of the carbon tax?
This has been noted by many, many people in the Victorian division, who see Kevin as a lightweight with absolutely nothing to contribute to the party, and who is stealing spots that rightly belong to talented people like Kelly O’Dwyer.
Mercer Moore, the backer of Kevin Andrews, Geoff Shaw , Helen Korger and now ” who the hell is Michael Sukkar?” is clearly a poor judge of character and political ability and has left reeling from her meddling.
I knew there was something radically wrong with that women. I am glad she lost her job , she should be booted from the Labor Party, she has made this mess all about her, its not about her its about the people in the HSU. As for her children being distressed, my advice to her is to stop trying to get media attention and look after them, she should be charged with neglect. I hope the Labor Party boots her. Those people including shock Jock Paul Murray on Foxtel should hang their heads in shame for championing this devious woman
Kathy Jackson and David Feeney personally ensured Darren Cheeseman won in Corrangamite got so it will be the battle of douchebags in this one Hernderson is a shoe in