Poison Deviny

Thomson didn’t warn he might hurt himself, he accused the media of trying to push him to hurt himself, “Is this about trying to push someone to the brink?”. And Kathy Jackson who charged to the HSU$46,290 for a Volvo and thousands of dollars for uniforms for a child care service in which no one wears uniforms deserves hero status from the opposition leader and puff pieces from News?

9/5/12: “How do Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott justify their vote of confidence in Craig Thomson yesterday? For that is the message they sent by voting with the government against the Opposition motion to suspend Thomson for 14 days. Their assistance allowed Thomson to escape parliamentary censure in the wake of the damning Fair Work Australia report alleging financial mismanagement and rorting at the Health Services Union. The report alleges Thomson spent $500,000 of HSU members’ money on prostitutes, ATM cash withdrawals, fine dining and election expenses in his central coast seat of Dobell

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15/5/12: “CRAIG Thomson has been cleared of almost all allegations of dodgy election funding following an investigation by the Australian Electoral Commission. But there will still be demands for him to use his address to Parliament next week to explain why his old union, the Health Services Union, spent a significant sum on his political ambitions. The AEC today reported that just over $88,000 in money from the Health Services Union, where Mr Thomson had been national secretary, had been used to support his 2007 bid for the seat of Dobell on the NSW central coast as an ALP candidate. However, most of the amount - totalling about $71,300 - were either below the threshold for compulsory declaration, or had been declared by the HSU.”

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/craig-thomson-cleared-of-dodgy-election-funding/story-e6frea8c-1226357611368

“Who is Michael Lawler? For starters, according to reliable sources, Michael Lawler is friends with a man named Tony Abbott. Apparently, the two of them socialise regularly. Conveniently, Tony Abbott is also the leader of the political party making so much ground out of the claims Michael’s partner is making. Michael Lawler works for an organisation called Fair Work Australia, where he is a Vice-President on a salary of $400,000 a year. The only person higher than him at that organisation is Iain Ross, who just replaced Geoffrey Giudice – the one who Tony Abbott and Lawler’s partner Kathy Jackson were attacking daily – as President of Fair Work Australia. On the 11th of October 2002, according to the FWA annual report, Michael Lawler was appointed Vice President of Fair Work Australia — although back then it was called the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. Previously, Lawler was a barrister who made his mark representing employers in employment disputes. The man who appointed him to the AIRC was none other than Tony Abbott — who at the time was Employment and Workplace Relations Minister under John Howard’s Coalition Government.”

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/politics/how-the-hsu-tangled-jackson-lawler-and-thomson-with-abbott/

The FWA investigation into Williamson and Thomson is in its third year. Last week, Jackson criticised the delay, alleging government interference. Gillard has defended Thomson, saying he does “a good job”. She has never defended Jackson, who has been subjected to intimidation so ruthless she was hospitalised with a nervous breakdown. The story only hit the front pages because Thomson’s seat was crucial to the minority government. But it is a rare opportunity to look into the union oligarchy, awash with cash and largely unaccountable, except to Fair Work Australia, which is stacked with ex-union apparatchiks. The Putinesque alliance between unions and Labor is welded by money - $230 billion from the cash cow of union-controlled super funds, with their secret fee structures.

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“Ms Jackson is also subject to a Fair Work Australia investigation.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-31/hsu-head-calls-for-external-review-into-thomson-inquiry/3803498

“Heading the mining donors was Queensland magnate Clive Palmer, whose companies sent $959,000 to the Liberal and National parties. Queensland Nickel was the largest individual donor to the Liberal Party with $500,000. The commission’s figures appear to show no mining dollars going to Labor.

The tobacco industry was similarly one-sided, although in its case that was because Labor has stopped accepting its donations.

British American Tobacco and Philip Morris sent a combined $264,000 to Coalition parties, much of it in small parcels, the most intriguing of which was a donation of $999 to the South Australian Liberal Party.”

http://m.smh.com.au/national/rocksolid-support-for-coalition-as-miners-donate-their-millions-20120201-1qtiq.html

“Clubs and hotels also pulled out the cheque books, after the Independent MP Andrew Wilkie struck a now-defunct pokies deal to help Labor form government. Clubs New South Wales has disclosed it spent around $1 million last financial year on campaigns and more than $400,000 on donations. The New South Wales division of the Australian Hotels Association told the commission it gave nearly $860,000 in donations, mainly to the Liberal and National parties.”

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3420798.htm

So what is it about women that makes them willing to risk all to do the right thing?

It can’t be that women are more ethical than men. But do they possess a special intuition to detect wrongdoing before their male colleagues?

Or is it the fact that in male-dominated workplaces they are less likely to be “team players” because they are excluded from the mates’ network and thus are able to judge ethical breaches dispassionately?

Are they less greedy for power and wealth, and therefore less afraid to rock the boat?

Or are they more in touch with the real world because they are used to running households.

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—	Miranda names a couple of female whistleblowers and some how that proves that women are more likely to whistleblow. I can name some male whistleblowers; Daniel Ellsberg, Andrew Wilkie and Bradley Manning so I guess that proves this article is sexist garbage.