… er trusted …
In a dramatic change of tactics, the Prime Minister abandoned her stonewalling on the issue after The Australiannewspaper wrongly claimed she had set up a trust fund for her then boyfriend, Bruce Wilson, who was an official with the Australian Workers Union.
Now come on, guys, the proper term is slush fund, or at least that was the term Ms. Gillard used when describing it to her seniors at Slater & Gordon. Although …
She preferred now not to call it a ”slush fund” – as she had in her interview during the 1995 Slater & Gordon inquiry – because that had an overtone.
And we are delighted to hear that Julia paid for her own renovations …
Kon Spyridis yesterday broke a 17-year silence to confirm that Ms Gillard personally paid him for nearly $4000 worth of renovations with two bank cheques…
“The union has got nothing to do with Julia’s payment for the house,” he said. “This is nonsense. Julia paid me. This is the true story…
Although, whilst Kon is clearly to be trusted, Julia seems a little uncertain …
JG: I can’t categorically rule out that something at my house didn’t get paid for by the association or something at my house didn’t get paid for by the union or whatever, I just, I don’t feel confident saying I can categorically rule it out, but I can’t see how it’s happened because that really is the only bit of work that I would identify that I hadn’t paid for…
Sorry, I’m getting confused… Bill the Greek, whilst I was at work one day, built for me a low level brick fence. I didn’t ask him to do that…. I didn’t pay for the bricks. I’ve never had an account in relation to the fence….
He, you know, he pleased as punch sort of said he had built it for me. That he had built it for me. Whether that means he himself did it, given Bill’s obvious difficulties with the truth I no longer know.
PG: What are Bill’s obvious difficulties with the truth?
JG: He’s just a big Greek bullshit artist.
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