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In BREAKING NEWS, Independent Australia has been reliably informed that Michael Williamson is to be charged tomorrow morning in connection with the Health Services Union scandal. Peter Wicks reports.
The former General Secretary of the HSU, Michael Williamson, is to be charged tomorrow according to reports.
Details are not clear as to what charges Williamson will face, but he has reportedly been told to report to Maroubra Police Station by 8am tomorrow for formal charges to be laid.
Although it has not been confirmed what the charges are, my suspicions are that they will concern CANME Services, a company owned by Michael Williamson’s wife Julieanne. CANME were contracted by the HSU for data storage, and it seems to be the thing most asked about by the boys with the detective badges.
I will bring further news on this story as it develops.
In the meantime, Victoria Police are still in the process of investigating Kathy Jackson and alleged corrupt practices during her time as Secretary of the troubled union.
Nominations closed last Friday for the upcoming elections for secretary and assistant secretary of the various branches that make up the union. With factional forces allegedly still heavily in play from the Jackson side, it will be interesting to see how things develop, particularly in Victoria where there are still enormous legal bills to pay after Jeff Jackson’s internal row with Pauline Fegan. Whoever inherits the Number 1 and Number 3 branches will have their work cut out for them.
Meanwhile, the auction of the Jackson property was a failure, so the property is back on the market for $2.1 Million; life’s tough in the union. Details on whether the pool pump was an issue are unclear and speculation that the attic had received a thorough clean can be put down to idle gossip.
Kathy Jackson
Independent Australia expect we will see Kathy Jackson in front of any camera she can find tomorrow to tell all that she has been shown to be correct and is vindicated of any wrongdoing. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
It is worth noting that Kathy Jackson has never provided any information on CANME Services, nor exhibited any knowledge on the subject. If Jackson tries to claim to be a whistleblower on this subject, then she is blowing nothing but hot air.
Interestingly, the CANME Services matter bears many similarities to both the Neranto Number 10 and the K. Koukouvaos Consulting scandals Kathy is embroiled in. There is, however, a major difference ― Julieanne Williamson was never an employee of HSU; with Neranto and Koukouvaos Consulting, both Kathy and Jeff Jackson were not only employees ― they were secretary’s.
Watch this space.
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18 Comments
Thanks for the latest episode on the Jacksonville soapy Peter. I had a feeling that something had to be brewing after a short hiatus from your reports.
I won’t be placing any bets on KJ finding tv cameras to spruik her stuff, as I’d be sure to lose my money.
But all this is just the upper layer- what I am waiting to hear is how far the Poodle et al are in this mess and how they will weasle out of it. It has the Libs fingerprints all over.
Excellent work Mr Wicks. This is why IA stands head and shoulders above all other news sources.
you have scooped the ABC, Fairfax and News. Well done.
Great to have you back. We’ve been waiting for another instalment.
Yet again Independent Australia scoops Australian mainstream media http://t.co/nrcmzET2 @madwixxy @independentaus #auspol #HSU @DobellThommo
Yet again Independent Australia scoops Australian mainstream media http://t.co/nrcmzET2 @madwixxy @independentaus #auspol #HSU @DobellThommo
. . . .and speculation that the attic had received a thorough clean can be put down to idle gossip.
CLASSIC!!
Yet again Independent Australia scoops Australian mainstream media http://t.co/nrcmzET2 @madwixxy @independentaus #auspol #HSU @DobellThommo
I note IE has used correct language in reporting this story almost 24 hours before it’s rivals. A Fairfax writer in reporting the above has basically trashed the notion of subjudice by proclaiming that a person had committed crimes (despite them not being charged over that particular matter.)
A well know lawyer recently said to me that he thought many Sydney Morning Herald journalists had gone “feral”. I now see what he means.
Great scoop Peter! Will be interested to see what the charges are! As a union member who happens to be a senior health administrator in charge of a multi million dollar budget I am required to act with probity and to budget, something that has apparently been completely missing from HSU and it astounds me that the checks and balances were not in place. What was the management committee doing all this time? Surely they too should be charged ? If they were the board of a public company they would be!. I look forward to hearing an instalment that tells me the matron of Jacksonville has been charged! Keep up the good work Peter.
What a classic prediction ! At 11am Thursday 4th October, Kathy Jackson stated on ABC news that she has now been vindicated by the arrest of Michael Williamson. Heaps of hot air blowing on the airwaves. You are a seer Peter.
Fascinating. Twists and turns and Cathy Jackson’s triple twists with forward pike make this series all the more enthralling. Great work Peter.
Kate McClymont re-writes history.
At 8.47am McClymont wrote that “a Herald investigation revealed he had embezzled funds”, knowing ‘he’ had been charged and the matter was now before the courts.
By Mid-day the woeful Sydney Morning Herald had finally inserted the word ‘alleged’.
Independent Australia, presumably on a shoe-string budget has time and time again scooped major publications.
No mention of ‘Canme’ as yet, just recruiting others to engage in criminal activities I think, like hindering police. The net seems to be widening. I didn’t see Kathy but look forward to it being repeated. Does she still look like a frightened rabbit I wonder?
Kate couldn’t resist another dig at Thomson even though that so called credit card slip was shown long ago to be bogus.
And after exposing the behaviour of James Ashby and the damage he wanted to cause to Slipper the MSM are acting as if he is irrational to make the same statements in court – the miles of emails and documents back him up.
Poor Ms McClymont has had to back-pedal and insert ‘allegedly’ all over the place. It beggers belief that a senior journalist would make such mistakes.
Journalists are worse than politicians : never admit a mistake and never apologise to your readers.
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Dear PETER WICKS,
Congratulations on this scoop and perhaps I missed them, but I didn’t notice other media reports earlier this morning crediting you or INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIA.
Peter, your steadfast investigation and the evidence you continue to place in the public domain has shone a light on these turgid activities that by any measure are acts of betrayal and contempt upon workers and so-called ordinary people by those who are supposed to be our very champions and guardians.
Tess Lawrence
Contributing editor-at-large Independent Australia
Sack Chris Uhlman, please. If you watched the 7.30 report, you will see that the ABC always returns to it’s pin up boy, Abbott, for the final and longest say when reporting on the Health Services Union .
Yeah, still with the tainted vote of the uncharged with anything Craig Thomson.
you bloody beauty at last, god i hope they get em all if for no other reason than satisfaction for all those long unrepresented ripped off HSU members. watch the lame libs scream, he was a labour member,to try and shift interest on thier involvement and abetz will scream the loudest.
GREAT WORK PETER AND ALL AT INDEPENDANT AUS i am soooo impressed,it makes my day
im gunna buy a ticket in the 40 mill lotto this weekend, if i win, what would you like, tv or radio station, both if i can afford it
I agree with the above analysis of Chris Uhlman’s efforts. I think PJK would call him and Mr Cassidy careerists. Whilst Leigh Sales goes from strength to strength, I always feel Uhlman has some other agenda, although I have no idea what that might be.
I also sing the praises of Mr Wicks and IA. I am thoroughly sick of the misinformation served up as news in the MSM and find the net much more reliable. I wish our journalists were as able and respectable as Mr Wicks.
I’ll have a TV station please mushroom2.