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GOTCHA: Another whistleblower comes forward against HSU crook Kathy Jackson

WaiquenHSUYesterday, VEXNEWS published a story based on revelations on the highly informative Independent Australia website that HSU #3 branch (run by Kathy Jackson) management accounts recorded payment to a Wai Quen Chan in July 2008 in the sum of $22,000.

We alleged that this payment was in fact a payment for the purchase of a shiny sports-car, some say a sparkling white Mercedes Benz convertible. Kathy’s hubby Jeff also had a red MG in his collection, the car with which we were familiar. It’s a bit hard to keep track of their luxury car fleet, it seems.

The VEXNEWS Investigations Unit made contact with Wai Quen Chan in Hong Kong, who was very helpful in fielding inquiries about this payment. She has confirmed this conversation in writing to VEXNEWS.

Wai Quen did not receive any such sum in 2008 or at any other time and was astonished by our explanation that her name appeared in the HSU’s records as having received $22,000. “How bizarre,” she said.

She emphatically told VEXNEWS that she had not been carrying on business in Australia in 2008 or since her departure from Australia and did not have an ABN at all. She did not invoice the HSU or provide services to the HSU. The ABN falsely attributed to her on HSU management accounts is in fact the former ABN of the HSU #3 branch itself, trading as the Health Professionals.

Wai Quen told VEXNEWS she is a friend of Kathy Jackson’s and a former employee of the HSU, but left there around 2000.

She told VEXNEWS that she had received a letter from the HSU’s Peter Mylan in relation to the matter but had been travelling on business so had just recently seen it. Being diligent and cautious, she was in the process of examining her records to confirm what she knew which is that she had not received any such payment

Wai Quen Chan is a senior employee at a large multinational company with extensive operations in Hong Kong. She was not difficult for VEXNEWS to find and make contact with. Authorities will easily be able to do the same.

This extraordinary situation gives rise to gravely serious suggestions that Ms Jackson may have been involved in a blatant act of theft and embezzlement and most certainly false accounting, as defined under Victorian law.

Developing…

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  1. Thank you to Vex to IA to Wixxy leax et al,

    What Craig has had to undergo is a disgrace to our democracy. Please do not give up on behalf of all of us who believe in the truth but don’t have the capacity in our lives right now to achieve what you can!!! So proud of you all.
    :-)

    Posted by Andrew T | June 7, 2012, 13:45
  2. This all reminds me so much of the bizarre Rudd utility affair that ended in a shambles.
    It’s far worse though as the attacks upon Craig Thomson and the horrible denial of natural justice has been sickening.

    Posted by Jack | June 7, 2012, 14:18
  3. More magnificent investigative work team. The MSM including the disgraced ABC are oh so silent now their game is over.
    If the Govt do not see fit to undertake a full Royal Commission into the media in this country they stand condemned. What further proof do they want. Mr Thomson rotting in jail?

    Posted by Zachary Church | June 7, 2012, 14:32
  4. I guess you think that if you throw enough mud some of it may stick. I hope for your sake you have deep $ pockets as I see a huge defamation case coming your way.

    Posted by Zac | June 7, 2012, 14:51
  5. Easy east easy I wouldn’t be exonerating Craig Thomson just yet he like a lot of them have had there fingers in the till . I reckon the further investigators probe the more HSU execs will turn up dirty

    Posted by Union thug | June 7, 2012, 14:57
  6. Frack me. Stealing $22,000 would land a commoner in jail. Odd how these big wigs get away with this sh!t.

    Posted by Anonymous | June 7, 2012, 15:19
  7. Williams, Thomson, Jackson’s, thieves and scumbags, all three of them. Unfortunately there is probably more officials of the HSU to be exposed before it is all over.Poor rank and file, get active and get rid.

    Posted by Reggie | June 7, 2012, 15:21
  8. I get the feeling the general reluctance to cover these issues stems from most of the big wigs having their own fingers in the till also.

    Posted by Rob | June 7, 2012, 16:15
  9. Omg! What a remarkable fact. That’s hard to ignore. Has Mr Mylan disclosed this fact to the Parl Privileges Committee, you know that he was actually investigating the $22K payment?

    Posted by mary-ann martinek | June 7, 2012, 17:14
  10. I’ve blown a few ‘whistles’ in my time too, even Boofas.

    Posted by Wenchy | June 7, 2012, 17:34
  11. Union thug, Thomson was not in the union when Kathy was doing all this rotten stuff so precisely what has he done.

    Posted by Marilyn | June 7, 2012, 18:40
  12. Nice work Vex. You have hit paydirt on this fraud Kathy Jackson.

    Posted by Live my the media, die by the media | June 7, 2012, 18:51
  13. Jeeezus H. Christ!….What’s with all these “professional” investigators!!?..seems they couldn’t find a nut in a “Crunchy Bar”!….Please, Govt’..someone do some firing and get a new crew in to clean up the mess!

    Posted by joe | June 7, 2012, 18:54
  14. @ Marilyn do you believe that all the findings against Thomson by FWA and the investigation by Slater &Gordon are false ?.

    Posted by Union thug | June 7, 2012, 19:18
  15. All should thank Mylan – he has made a formal complaint to Victoria Fraud Squad when the information has come to hand.

    Posted by Anon | June 7, 2012, 19:34
  16. Union thug?..Slater & Gordon!?…aren’t they the ones who publish comic books?…..or is that Gordon & Gotch?…perhaps they’re related!!

    Posted by joe | June 7, 2012, 19:40
  17. Hey Kathy and Marco ….. and I know you read vex like all the other Vic organisers do…. Are two ready to bend over and take what’s coming to you. You two have spent the best part of 2 years undermining and destroying this union ultimately adversely affecting mainly the lowly paid workers. Now after all your media stunts and numerous legal actions to prevent various decisions, the truth is finally coming out and you two are going to be hung out to dry…..hopefully in front of the media who have sucked up your backsides over the past 12 months. I hope you two are planning your early retirements because it’s coming !!!!!!

    Posted by Anon | June 7, 2012, 19:45
  18. Well done Vex; this is why I totally disregard MSM these days, and look to online blogs for timely reporting and quality investigative journalism.

    Posted by Anonymous | June 7, 2012, 20:04
  19. Anon, Lets not forget some of the others that need to go – fleur & her husband – Mary Cook – \ Francis Lindsay & her husband. The list can go on.

    Posted by Anon2 | June 7, 2012, 20:05
  20. Did you see who won first prize in the apheda raffle? Could do with a holiday

    Posted by Lon Leave | June 7, 2012, 20:26
  21. Hate to be bearer of bad tidings but there is absolutely nothing out there at the moment likely to hold Jackson to account for her alleged sins. FWA enquiry was mainly about Thomson, Temby inquiry was mainly about Williamson, and Jackson herself has told us that the police aren’t investigating her. The current court case is all about the future of the HSU as a union. Jackson’s attempts to make it all about her were naturally directed to presenting her in best light possible. Her affidavit was about the sins of others, not her own. So anyone who thinks she’s in trouble is deluded. MSM isn’t going to follow up any of Vex’s allegations either. As far as the rest of the world is concerned she’s still a credible whistleblower being unfairly smeared by her enemies.

    Posted by Sad but true | June 7, 2012, 20:32
  22. If Kathy Jackson doesn’t end up in prison what will she do for a job?

    Posted by Anonymous | June 7, 2012, 20:46
  23. Dear HSU members, vote for me and I will stop posting shit on this site

    Posted by Daniel rent boy govan | June 7, 2012, 22:07
  24. Hey Sad but true

    The Victorian Police haste been given these documents fairly recently and have approached HSUeast to take a statement, This is not the old “hand up they sent me a letter and are not investigating’ March story – this is three weeks ago they have new evidence and have made contact with Mylan to take a formal statement.

    Your may be negative – but this is with the police and WILL be investigated. Hats of to Mylan for not only putting it to the police when real evidence was brought to his attention, he has also asked the the police comes to take the statement sooner, rather than later so it can be active by the time an administrator is appointed.

    At least Mylan is working for the members,,,,,,,,,,,

    Posted by Anon | June 7, 2012, 22:11
  25. Bolano/Jackson….karma
    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    Good luck getting another job losers

    Posted by Truth | June 7, 2012, 22:36
  26. To Sad But True, your own statement shows your ignorance. How would Kathy Jackson know if VicPol are investigating her or not. She may true to inquire if she is being investigated and she may have been told No. However, as the police are going to tell a suspect they are under investigation prior to an eventual arrest. Not even stupid Bolano would accept that his protectee ( Jackson ) is not being investigated because the police told her so. All the Jackson/ Bolano followers will soon be confronted with Indisputable evidence and subsequent convictions to prove their beloved so called Hero Kathy Jackson is nothing more than a fraud and a disgrace to the entire union movement.

    Posted by Anon | June 7, 2012, 23:13
  27. No one will ever know how much has vanished into the pockets of this lot of low lifes.
    However I would expect everybody will know who was behind the derailing of the AFP probe into the AWB disgrace.

    Posted by Johnny B Bad | June 8, 2012, 3:22
  28. 19th Province of the Peoples’ Republic of China here we come!

    Brush up on your Mandarin everyone AND prepare to live under the point of Mao’s bayonet!

    Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2012, 3:26
  29. Thomson 10 is now available in IA. It beggars belief that Jackson is currently before the courts demanding not to be stood down because she ‘has done nothing wrong’. And none of IA’s revelations is before the court. A ruling that she keep her position without these matters being tested would be totally unjust.

    Posted by Belief beggared | June 8, 2012, 8:34
  30. Sorry to hear that Bolano had an accident yesterday

    Posted by Bad luck | June 8, 2012, 8:43
  31. Perhaps she isn’t going to get it all her way?

    Court can’t dump me, Jackson argues – AFR

    Judge Geoffrey Flick questioned whether the other parties had shown there would be no substantial injustice because Ms Jackson was near the “epicentre” of the dysfunction and had reportedly said her salary was excessive.

    Posted by Anon | June 8, 2012, 11:33
  32. The HSU case wasn’t going the way KJ wanted it to so she’s demanded the judge disqualify himself! She really has been indulged for far too long. Unbelievable!

    Posted by kj spits the dummy | June 8, 2012, 13:55
  33. Seems it could be a case of distancing oneself now more stuff has been raised about KJ – could be a particular political party trying to back track and distance itself mb?..Did she ever make the speech to the RHN society?..I believe her new QC is representing lawler aswell..no conflict of interest? Should this be allowed? Who is paying legal fees or is it probono?

    Posted by Interesting | June 8, 2012, 14:19
  34. She accuses the judge of procedural unfairness?????

    What after she emailed his chambers and associates and attempted to communicate with them before the hearing even started ??

    Sounds like Ms Jackson is operating on a very thin threshold of reality . Could it be that she is finally being treated without prejudice and any favouritism her shambolic facade of lies is starting to crumble. Clearly the more she continues to call everyone unfair that won’t suit her elaborate and shifting defense , the more it becomes obvious she is not fit for office .

    Posted by You get what you pay for | June 8, 2012, 14:33
  35. Posted by anonymous | June 8, 2012, 14:57
  36. STATEMENT BY HARMERS WORKPLACE LAWYERS RE THE KATHYJACKSON MATTERFriday, 8 June y”We can confirm that as a result of a mutual decision with Ms Jackson,Harmers Workplace Lawyers and the barristers previously in that case, are nolonger acting for Ms Jackson in the matter presently before the Federal Court.As was mentioned in court today certain advice was given to Ms Jackson,and as is her right,she has decided to seek alternative advice.”Anthony McClellanAMC MediaSpokespersonHarmers Workplace Lawy

    Posted by anonymous | June 8, 2012, 16:01
  37. Maybe Kathy should just sack herself.

    Posted by anonymous | June 8, 2012, 16:02
  38. Sounds like some one in the know has been giving Kathy information on the who’s who of federal court judges . I wonder who that could be ?

    Posted by Union thug | June 8, 2012, 16:26
  39. Posted by anonymous | June 8, 2012, 17:22
  40. Right. All my lawyers ? You’re all sacked. Flick? If you’re not going to give me what I want, you can come down off the bench and piss off out of here as well. And I want this court room burned to the ground immediately . Who do you all think you are?

    But Kathy, the members….

    Fuck the members! This is my future we’re talking about, not theirs. Marco, call a press conference. I want to talk to someone who appreciates me. The hide of them all – suggesting I’ve made the HSU dysfunctional…..

    Posted by A day in court | June 8, 2012, 17:28
  41. Kathy just doesn’t get it.

    The HSU members don’t want her representing them or a bar of her dysfunctionalism.

    It would save the courts , members, and everyone lots of time and money, and bullshit drama if she just walked.

    Posted by ground control to Jackson | June 8, 2012, 17:30
  42. Seems the paranoid delusions can’t stay down for as long as Kathy would like.

    And finally the media have made the firm poimt that this is nothing to do with Craig Thomson.

    I want to know why Robert Elliot was still being paid for the last 10 years even though he did not have a job.

    Posted by Marilyn | June 8, 2012, 17:56
  43. Did Rob Elliot ever turn up to do a days work? Or is he just a fabrication ? a fake invoice , or a sham consultancy with her and Jeff as Directors invoicing the union for years ?

    Hopefully the administrator just appointed will be able to shine the the light on this and many more scams run by the “whistleblower”.

    Posted by sounds of shredders | June 8, 2012, 18:11
  44. Maybe KJ is hoping that when the shit hits the fan, she can make a plea of insanity and get off with a slap on the wrist and a week in an institution?

    Posted by Skeptical | June 8, 2012, 19:18
  45. Poor Marco – no job!

    Posted by Anon | June 8, 2012, 19:22
  46. I can’t believe Alan Jones is organising a fundraiser for her.

    Posted by Mobnoel | June 8, 2012, 19:33
  47. “As soon as the Fair Work Australia report on the HSU was released, the NSW O’Farrell government should have had a squad of auditors swarming over the accounts of the Sussex Street unions, starting with Sheldon’s TWU, a factional blood-brother to the HSU.”

    Posted by Mark Latham | June 8, 2012, 20:47
  48. Finally someone who sees KJ for what she really is a complete fruit loop

    Posted by At last | June 8, 2012, 21:07
  49. Mobnoel- I can. He is mad.

    Posted by Benny | June 8, 2012, 21:28
  50. I

    Posted by Future | June 8, 2012, 21:50
  51. I have heard that Box Hill Techs have sacked the HSU. is this true ? if it is, good on you Guys for having the guts to find an alternative. Who do I contact to find out more.

    Posted by Future | June 8, 2012, 21:54
  52. Marco – big mortgage, no job! Kaffy f#####d you big time

    Rob – you too

    VERY FUNNY

    Posted by Anon | June 8, 2012, 22:22
  53. Dont worry KJ, it’s fatty Feeney to the rescue!

    Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2012, 22:54
  54. Lawler I hope you wake up by now what a scum you have been sleeping with.

    Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2012, 23:16
  55. How dare you use ‘my’ name in vain you smelly little Unionist, I hope you ride a bicycle as EPC will ‘door’ you.

    Posted by Fatty Doyle | June 8, 2012, 23:51
  56. this saga gets dirtier and dirtier every day,and where it will end only god knows,and to think it all started with jacksons dirty work framing craig thomson,oh what a tangled web we weave,[you know the rest]no wonder the oppisition,media,and shock jocks havebeen silent of late,

    Posted by interested | June 9, 2012, 0:05
  57. this all gets dirtier everyday,where will it all end.and to think it all started with jackson framing craigh thomson,no wonder the coallition,msm,and shock jocks have all gone quiet,[oh what a tangled web we weave]you know the rest.

    Posted by interested | June 9, 2012, 0:10
  58. Jackson could have addressed indications of possible corruption in the HSU in a manner which would not have resulted in the personal calamity that descended on her head today. We can only speculate as to why she chose the slash and burn approach but it’s reasonable to suppose that she wanted personal control of the HSU and the power that comes with the ability to dangle voting blocs in front of other ALP wannabe heavyweights. In the end she chose to use the media to smear not only the main suspects but also the totally innocent. Initially she got what she wanted, paralyzing the HSU executive with a constant media bombardment and an attendant public odium not only of Thomson and Williamson but also of HSU operations as a whole. Poised to take the HSU throne with the blessing of a venal, agenda driven, media, she was outsmarted and outmaneuvered by those for whom she had so much contempt. The HSU executive, the bulk of whom, despite her slanderous inferences to the contrary, are honest and honourable people, and Bill Shorten, took the issue from a ravenous and disgracefully compliant media and put it into the hands of the courts. As we have seen today, his honour, Justice Flick put an end to her scheming and manipulative machinations by simply applying the law. Though she continues with her nonsensical accusations of bias, and an insistence that the moon, sun and planets should continue to revolve around her, she’ll soon have to admit that the game’s up and that she failed. And apparently, if these pages are to be believed, waiting around the corner as she comes out of court will be a whole raft of allegations about her own financial management which one hopes she will be forced to address. And, not many least of all her friends in the media, will bother shedding a tear for her.

    Posted by No tears here | June 9, 2012, 0:43
  59. Ms Jackson accused the judge of “lapping up” the advice of other lawyers, something Justice Flick said he found “offensive”.

    The judge interrupted Ms Jackson several times, telling her “you are reading a press release”.

    “You’re not doing your case any good,” he said.

    Justice Flick found that while he had not yet heard all of the evidence in the case, the appointment of an interim administrator was justified.

    “I’ve reached a decision today in my own mind that whatever may ultimately happen, there is a sufficient basis at present to justify the making of that order on an interim basis,” he said.

    He adjourned the matter until next Friday, June 15, and he invited Ms Jackson to make further submissions then, telling her, “I’m not that easily offended”.
    Mr Moore will take up the position from midday on Tuesday.

    Posted by anonymous | June 9, 2012, 1:08
  60. Reading between the lines, The truth is not going to set Kathy Jackson free. As for Craig Thomson – has he denied the allegations?? All I have heard him say is “I have done nothing wrong” … So he actually believes no wrong doing has occurred…

    Posted by Reading between the lines | June 9, 2012, 6:17
  61. Well gee, I reckon continual claims over 4 years and 8 investigation showing Thomson has done nothing wrong probably means he has done nothing wrong.

    Posted by Marilyn | June 9, 2012, 7:25
  62. Instead of reading between the lines, you should try reading Peter Wicks blogs on Independent Australia.
    The truth will certainly not do KJ any favours, but it may well set CT free.
    It will also ask a few questions of one T Abbot, although that wont matter as he never answers a question anyway. Likewise for C Pyne.
    And there would be no point in asking J Hockey as he has not got any answers for anything!
    Here’s a question though; Why would anyone sack a high profile law firm that was acting Pro Bono?
    Two possible answers.
    1. Because they were giving her bad advice based on the fact that she was a union boss and they are union busters.
    2. Because the LNP finally woke up to the fact that the wheels were falling off their attempt to kill off CT
    (figuratively or literally) and decided that it was time to cut and run, and so told their Harmers mates to tell KJ that she was a delusional liability and was likely to take them all down, or words to that effect.
    I suspect that it might be #2.

    Posted by Skeptical | June 9, 2012, 7:41
  63. I hate it when I’m right. But I did say the truth will come out some time ago. Kathy Jackson’s mental impairment has finally caught up with her. Not only has she never accepted any responsibility in any of the poor miss management practices of the HSU ( along with others ) but has blamed everyone else in such a public way that has really in the end made herself look like a deranged disparate women clasping at her weird sense of reality. Now she can see the end of her involvement in this once fine union, and that of her side kick and dumb ass bodyguard , Marco Bolano. All those Victorian organisers who have been sucked in to her fantasy expecting her to come out on top thus assuring their positions will be safe, had better sucking up certain backsides and ask for forgiveness. Finally, the members are going to see some positive action with a clean out of the corrupt officials like Kathy Jackson and Williamson and a clean out of over paid, under performing sycophantic organisers who have been more interested in involving themselves in the politics of the union instead of servicing the members who pay for their salaries. Not long now Kathy and Marco and the rest if your corrupt actions will slowly service and nothing will save you from the fait awaiting you both. You could run, but you’ll never be able to hide as every union in Australia will be looking for you.

    Posted by The Truth Will Come Out | June 9, 2012, 9:26
  64. Justice Flick is an eminent author of legal texts including learned tomes on natural justice. Jackson accusing him of bias is risible but typical. The media likes shrieking harpies but they get treated like everybody else once in court.

    Posted by Justice for harpies. | June 9, 2012, 9:32
  65. Ms Jackson accused the judge of ”lapping up” the advice of other lawyers, something Justice Flick said he found ”offensive”. He interrupted Ms Jackson several times, telling her ”you are reading a press release”. ”You’re not doing your case any good,” he said.

    Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/judge-rules-suspension-of-officers-from-hsu-20120608-201v4.html#ixzz1xFBHhVW0

    Posted by Anon | June 9, 2012, 9:34
  66. $22,000- buys a Merc?? To import into Oz??

    Posted by JakartaJaap | June 9, 2012, 9:49
  67. In the AFR:
    She said the fight was between a “corrupt faction and a non-corrupt faction”.

    The case will return to court on Friday for Ms Jackson to put forward her position.

    However Peter Wicks points out:
    Instead of denying, disputing, challenging or rejecting any of our findings, the best response she can make, it seems, is to label our six previous investigative articles as just a “smear”.

    http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/politics/thomson-7-credit-card-slips-clarifications-and-truth-bombs/

    Which faction does she align herself to?

    Posted by Anon | June 9, 2012, 9:54
  68. Thank you for exposing the truth Andrew.. A lot of good party people feel the same about this over on pollbludger.

    Posted by Danny Lewis | June 9, 2012, 10:22
  69. The allegation made that Kathy actually left the shovel outside of her own house when this started sounds more and more believable with every passing day.

    Mad as a cut snake.

    Posted by Bunnings | June 9, 2012, 10:31
  70. Posted by anonymous | June 9, 2012, 10:41
  71. In order to distance themselves from the Labor party intervention and power games that have crippled the HSU, the union needs new leadership.

    I think Gérard Hayes and his financial backing from. Shorten and the Labor Party is exactly what they need in order to not be used simply as a political pawn that is sucked dry come Labor Party national convention.

    Gérard understands that the Labor Party comes first and THEN the HSU members.

    Posted by In Gérard we trust | June 9, 2012, 10:41
  72. Too bad Australia is not fielding a Dummy Spitting team at the Olympics this year – Kathy would be a dead cert for Gold

    Posted by wothers | June 9, 2012, 11:03
  73. I think finally we are getting a real picture of Jacksons true persona. Indulged too long by the uncritical MSM , her hire-and-fire, i-make-the-rules, i-provide &decide-the-evidence, i -am-the-judge-jury-executioner modus operandi shows she is not fit to run a chook raffle let alone a national union.

    Heads up to Kathy , it’s not a wise move to get the legal establishment offside .Nor is it wise to delay the inevitable and use the courts to make press releases written by Lawler.

    Enjoy the scrutiny.

    Posted by She's all shine and no shoes | June 9, 2012, 11:18
  74. Truth – presumably your comments are about vic organisers. NSW organisers have continued to work their butts off representing members. That’s why they’ll get re elected no matter whose ticket they are on. But anyone on Jackson’s ticket in Victoria will lose. The members down there aren’t going to be duped yet again. Why do you think KJ is so desperate not to demerge?

    Posted by Organisers | June 9, 2012, 12:22
  75. OMG reality check here people. Boo Hoo squish squish I’m going to cry… Follow the Trail the MONEY trail.
    Members of the HSU, oh hang on, the members. WHO are they Mmmm well they are cleaners, wardsman, drivers, security, paramedics, junior doctors, radiographers to name a few. They pay a subscription fee for service…the service, appropriate and professional and honest industrial representation. Wow what a notion…a focus on member representation!
    The reality is not very much of those subscription fees seem to go where members think they go. The money trail starts at the member and weaves its way through the union distributed every which way helping union execs climb the political ladder thus funding political campaigns and Labor Party agendas then continuing on even higher up the ladder to Labor Pollies at Federal level and ultimately the PM.
    Why has all this taken so long? From the PM down so many have had a vested interest in the actions of a few unrestrained, greedy and selfish idiots who have impacted on the secret and dishonest operations of an out of control money making machine. FWA and others have ensured Thompson not be charged, made bankrupt of anything else while on Gillard’s watch so as not to topple a minority government. Jackson, Thompson, Williamson and many other unnamed union personnel and hangers-on have just not been smart enough to continue to pull off a well established system of self serving fraud using long established lax and open ended union rules and all being funded by hard working members.
    HSU is a mega union. It absorbed many smaller unions over the years to ensure maximum cash flow into union movement coffers. With this came power and control. Unions should never be allowed to grow this large. They should be specific to the members for whom they work. When this happens focus is moved from its members to its executive officers and we now see money has derailed the honesty of those entrusted to provide a service of representation. Jackson, Thompson, Williamson and others are just over paid, rough around the edges, self serving stooges who have been out of control for years and have now been caught.
    Oh….. And they are using member’s funds for their legal defences. Members not only have been ripped off they are now funding the very people who have defrauded them. No argument from any staunch union person can defend the FINDINGS of the behaviour exhibited by these thieves.
    Too bad, so sad Guilty as charged. They receive no emotional response from me. HM’s prison will be start contrast to what these people have been used to. I want my money back!

    Posted by Follow The Trail | June 9, 2012, 12:54
  76. Organisers… You are spot on !!! I was definitely referring to all Vic organisers. They will be caught between a rock and a hard place and their blinded loyalty to the desperate Jackson and absolutely stupid Bolano will come back and slap them in the face.

    Posted by The Truth Will Come Out | June 9, 2012, 14:18
  77. This from the HR Nicholls Society Website:

    Stuart Wood SC

    Stuart is a Barrister and the Victorian Bar and a member of the HR Nicholls Society.

    He is the only Australian barrister listed in the Labour and Employment sections of Euromoney’s AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers in 2009 & 2010, Best Lawyers in 2010 & 2011 and Chambers Asia Pacific 2011. 

On 22 November 2011, Stuart was appointed Senior Counsel by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria. 

He has acted for most of the major employers in Australia in some of the largest industrial and employment disputes in the country and is currently advising Ms Kathy Jackson of the HSU.

    Posted by Wake Up | June 9, 2012, 15:58
  78. I am sorry for losing my balls I was only doing my job,how could I say no. I thought I had a job for life .

    Posted by marco | June 9, 2012, 16:41
  79. Hey Marco……. Just wondering if you’re got your resume in order. Just wondering what sort of job you will be looking for? Not sure if we can help you get a job like the one your about to loose, you know, one that pays you $180.000 +, a job where all you have to do is following your boss around looking tough , one that doesn’t require you to uses your brains, ( although we might be able to find you something in the disability sector ). Can I suggest you start looking at courses in shit shovelling and arse licking, I think these will be your strengths. I would also suggest you not entertain a career in the media as your recent afforts have suggested your difficultly in mastering the English language.
    Give us a call in a week or so and we’ll see what we can arrange for you.

    Posted by CentreLink | June 9, 2012, 18:20
  80. I see Kathy is now bitching about the former Federal Court Justice Moore being appointed as an Administrator of the HSU, describing him as ‘Darling of the NSW Right Wing’ hmmm I am somewhat confused then as Justice Moore presided and booted from office the ballot frauding officials in another ALP right wing union in NSW. Seems like a pretty smart choice to me Kathy, a bloke who can cut through all the bullshit and knows a bit about the rorting, frauding, thieving antics of the loony NSW ALP and it’s affiliated unions and other ‘colourful characters.’

    Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2012, 18:24
  81. Is it true that Jackson will still keep the 150k National Secretary job even though she has lost the 270k position? When can the HSU get rid of her?

    Posted by Anon | June 9, 2012, 19:10
  82. Well I can say ‘confidentially ‘ that is, that Kathy won’t need a large salary any more as her house is paid of and she has completed all the plastic surgery she wished to have including a breast enlargement, liposuction, collagen injections, which if l don’t say myself had created a lovely pair of breasts .

    Posted by Medico | June 9, 2012, 19:44
  83. tinfoil hat conspiracy theories aside… is the catholic church playing a role in muting msm interest in this tawdry tale…

    Posted by slickwilly | June 10, 2012, 0:21
  84. An exasperated Pauline Fegan apparently once put KJ in a headlock in a stairwell. Neither justce Flick nor anyone else attending the HSU case last week has any need to ask why.

    Posted by The answer | June 10, 2012, 7:42
  85. The Merc was a V12 and the postage and shipping of $12500 paid from Jacksons branch to herself on 07/01/2009 was more than likely the duty & shipping costs

    Posted by An old friend | June 10, 2012, 14:48
  86. An old friend, that dates don’t work the $22k was paid on 22/07/08?

    Any suggestions

    Posted by Anon | June 10, 2012, 15:29
  87. Andy – what a great story. Well done. Nothing like a clear cut of fraud to make my weekend!

    Posted by Noel Jackson (no relation!) | June 10, 2012, 16:09
  88. Anon – i know the date is later but she paid herself so could have waited

    Posted by An old friend | June 10, 2012, 17:21
  89. Yeah – and do you have to wait a certain time before you can ship to avoid tax etc?

    I know the car and I got a first hand from JJ that it had come from overseas, didn’t get a country of origin.

    Date is interesting, was it a birthday present JJ 24/1 and they were not together and an apology for the new relationship perhaps?

    Posted by Anon | June 10, 2012, 18:27
  90. Paulie Price, I am feeling very neglected because you didn’t visit me at the Grand Hyatt for a late night cap and a debrief after parliament.

    Posted by Wenchy | June 10, 2012, 19:59
  91. I hope that HSU members are preparing themselves to run a genuine rank and file reform ticket in the inevitable elections in both NSW & Victoria. What this union needs is genuine reform from the ground not just more of the same. It is time all like minded people got together to contest the elections. I would start with a website or blogsite and start fundraising, it really can be done and it is time it was done. Don’t be threatened or put off by the cashed up incumbents, in the end that does not cut it with the members. A genuine rank and file ticket is what is desperately needed for this sorry excuse of a union.

    Posted by Anonymous | June 10, 2012, 20:27
  92. It is not fair just when I make it the truth on me is out. That I am a sly dishonest lying grub, I just hope my shonky habits in Gippsland 16 years ago don’t surface.

    Posted by Peter Ryan | June 10, 2012, 22:16
  93. Hope your proposed site has more success than KJs Clean Up site. It’s populated by about six people all of whom sound like they’ve been promised jobs when the revolution comes but who know bugger all about representing workers. They don’t seem to have noticed that Jackson’s only objective in current court proceedings is to protect her own job.

    Posted by Sick site | June 11, 2012, 9:09
  94. Kathy Jackson who is ‘usually talkative’ has been very quiet these days. She doesn’t seem to be able to respond to the allegations against her by IA and Vexs. Obviously we know why.

    Posted by Anon | June 11, 2012, 11:23
  95. Jackson made a bid to seize control of the resources rich HSUeast and it’s voting grunt. By smear and accusation she paralyzed its executive and shackled the effectiveness of its organisers with a view to usurping them with her own faction. Encouraged and indulged in her ambitions by an agenda-driven media she expects the same treatment in court. Justice Flick has reminded her the case isn’t all about her. This, she interprets as bias. She continues to berate all and sundry. But her campaign is at an end. Good riddance.

    Posted by Good riddance | June 11, 2012, 12:17
  96. Lets hope the HSU administrator gets Temby to do a proper investigation by looking at the Vic No 1 and 3 books pre merger. Jackson’s explanations of her and ex’s unusual expenditures have been infrequent and inadequate. Now that she’s run out of rocks to throw, she needs to produce her own hands for inspection.

    Posted by Administrator | June 11, 2012, 18:27
  97. For a pretty balanced synopsis check out this

    http://www.ellistabletalk.com/2012/06/03/5940/

    Posted by Anon | June 11, 2012, 21:52
  98. Bill Tilly is silly. His latest action is proff positive that he is a loose cannon and should never have got a promotion from the back bench!

    Posted by anon | June 11, 2012, 23:42
  99. So this was basically an internal HSU xfer of money with an incorrect payee name. Probably one of hundreds if not thousands given the endemic theiving that is on record in what Thomson et al were doing in theiving.
    So how did that become a purchase a shiny new merc from Hong Kong? (apart from the name of an Asian that lives in HK) there is no other linkage, the money went from the HSU back into the HSU.
    And 22k,, Yep that sure buys a flashy merc import.
    Typical sloppy desperate stuff in dirt digging from an embattled dwindling CT clique as their pock faced little spiv goes down.
    The reason the public HATE Thomson is because he is a snively little miserable two timing low life that has been sprung. As he couldn’t resign he has now become delusion in trying to dig up dirt and blame everyone else. The public don’t care, they want Thomson out of their face and dodo labor as he is a massive non performing liability.

    Posted by Bob | June 12, 2012, 0:47
  100. #medico, you seem fixated on Kathy’s breasts.
    Is there fact to their augmentation ? Pre & post estimates.
    She seems pretty average to me, so others may care to comment if the money was well spent for the members.
    And the big question ~ was it for Craig ? or was it the lack of access to them that drove Thomson to his madness and the comfort of hookers ?

    Posted by Pre & Post ? | June 12, 2012, 1:05
  101. Bob

    You obviously have information that nobody else has accessed. Can you put up the records that show the $22k returned to the HSU.

    IA has uploaded records of the EFT for $22k for Legal Services to Wai Quen in Hong Kong.

    Vex has contacted Wai Quen who states she has never received the payment.

    Show us your records of the payment returned to the HSU and the mystery will be solved.

    Posted by Anon | June 12, 2012, 10:16
  102. Bob, if this was an internal transfer as you suggest, why would she, KJ, use an old HSU ABN, or for that matter any ABN and someone else’s name and quote “For legal services”?
    Lets face it, YOU hate CT because you are obviously a right wing hack with no interest in the truth, but just pissed off because he didn’t roll over and leave the way clear for T Rabbot and his cronies to gain government on the back of their lies and deceit instead of having to come up with actual policies and win fairly
    When the TRUTH does come out you may find that your LNP mates have some difficult questions to answer themselves, although that probably wont matter, as they don’t answer questions they just dodge them or lie.

    Posted by Skeptical | June 12, 2012, 12:04
  103. Our frequent, always agitated correspondent Marilyn Shepherd, passionate unexhausted foul-mouthed godmother of Aghan boat people and imprisoned children, has been on the Craig Thomson case for a good while, and on June 2 posted the following. It is the most convincing case for a frame-up I have yet seen since I, too, sensed he was innocent while watching him with Laurie Oakes four weeks ago.

    I do not think the Liberals can survive the Craig case, which is shaping up as the Dreyfus of this country and century; nor, after O’Farrell privatising the buses this morning, can they win more than 51 percent of the two party preferred in the Nielsen tomorrow morning.

    Here is Marilyn’s letter, answering the many Liberal stooges attacking not just her hypothesis but, in the way they do, her character and her sanity.

    Starting now:

    Carnavon has nothing to do with Craig Thomson. It is about Michael Williamson, Kathy Jackson and their cronies from 2008-2012.

    Do try and keep up.

    Now last month Jackson denied driving an expensive
    Volvo. But Wicks has got hold of the $84,000 docket plus the $5,000 missing dollars. The news that Jackson was hiring Michael Lawler’s kids on huge salaries, the large sums paid on consultants for nothing tangible and even legal services in Hong Kong.

    Again, Carnavon has zero to do with Thomson.

    But the media are still peddling their made-up lie that Thomson is accused of stealing $500,000, a number invented by Tony Wright and copied by the apes.

    In fact $270,000 was claimed to have been not declared for his elections. But it was all declared and presented although Jackson was late to file $17,000 of it.

    That brings us down to the claim of $100,000 over 5 years on a credit card that has all been paid for and accounted for years ago without anyone wanting it back.

    Then there is the $6,000 on hookers when what we see they did was roll all the claims against Jeff Jackson using hookers into the claim that Thomson was.

    Yet it was Jackson’s enemy Pauline Fegan who said Jackson was using hookers and to cover it all up it was Kathy Jackson who claimed that it was Thomson.

    But Thomson really was travelling with his wife when it is claimed he rented out his dick in Sydney.

    So let’s look at what is left.

    $3,000 of the hooker claims were actually Jackson’s. So, with $370,000 accounted for, we are left with just $3,000.

    But Kathy Jackson and her boyfriend are in a world of trouble even though she thinks she is calling the shots.

    Think about this. Kathy claimed to be a poor worker for the poor.

    But – $270,000 salary
    $84,000 Volvo
    $63,000 for HESTA payments over 3 years.
    $74,000 bonus last year.
    Hundreds of thousands claimed for consultants, and on and on it goes.

    Interestingly, it was Jeff Jackson who claimed that Pauline Fegan was the thief but she faces just $4,400 in fines and he faces $22,000 in fines if the court doesn’t do the right thing and laugh Terry Nassios and FWA out of court.

    It’s amazing that both Jeff Jackson and Craig Thomson are accused of using the same hookers at the same time.

    But what the media have to do is read.

    The AEC have comprehensively destroyed Nassios report but they refuse to believe the AEC because they want it both ways.

    Posted by Anon | June 12, 2012, 13:02
  104. SO what you’re telling us is that the HSU is rotten to the core.

    Which union next… MUA… CFMEU… ETU???

    There are some good unions but all are now tarnished.

    Posted by Double Trouble | June 12, 2012, 13:07
  105. Yet more on Jackson’s alleged depredations on IA and Wixxy. Read it and weep. Better still write to your MPs and demand they do something. The MSM won’t.

    Posted by Read it and weep | June 12, 2012, 17:28
  106. Jackson’s appearance at the H.R. Nicholls Society was surely the most unusual pairing in recent industrial history, and it wasn’t lost on the society’s leaders.

    ”From the bottom of my heart,” said society board member James W. Patterson, ”thank you for all the ammunition you have provided us with tonight.”

    Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/union-secretary-takes-fight-into-heartland-of-the-old-foe-20120612-208iq.html#ixzz1xbrR0Ca6

    Posted by Abbotts performing IR monkey | June 13, 2012, 6:40
  107. Kathy even the Tallarook womens Country association have a collective conscience , they wouldn’t invite a scab to talk .

    Posted by More front then Myers | June 13, 2012, 7:46
  108. Watch the visuals on the news. She could barely read the words in front of her. Wonder who wrote the speech. What a ridiculous fraud she is.

    Posted by Lip synching Kathy | June 13, 2012, 8:51
  109. 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.

    Posted by OMG !!!! | June 13, 2012, 9:46
  110. I just want to mention that alot of ppl are are sort of right re/ KJ but this this the fact. The saga re/ tompson. JJ and SH went to sydney (national branch) met up with tompson and ent out for dinner.
    SH was over heard in the office in melb that they had gone and had dinner then went to see some hooker.
    KJ new of this and new of her husband JJ going off and having something on the side. So apart from all these pay increase they were giving themselves, look a bit closer to this issue and u will see who was trying to set up tompson and who new about it.You will also see if you look hard enough that KJ had been looking at trying to almagamate all branches together so she can be “cock of the hill”. Its amazing what happens to whisleblowers and their cronies when they whisltle loudly.. (it comes back and bits you on tghe arse).
    Would you KJ and MB like a file in your cake when you go to jail.
    What goes around comes around

    Posted by annom | June 18, 2012, 12:47
  111. when you wash with soap some of the dirt hard to remove .nice one vex

    Posted by phil | June 22, 2012, 9:14
  112. where is the dingo

    Posted by freddy | June 23, 2012, 23:39
  113. lawyer wanter pro bono to take on hsu. still does not work

    Posted by freddy | June 27, 2012, 1:05

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