Craig Thompson gets 3 mths jail and 9 months suspended sentence. I was hoping he would get some jail time just for the tall stories he was telling under parliamentary privilege - although he was not facing charges on that this time round. Having said that I did not think they would give him a custodial sentence - but he has.

I can hear the cheers across the neighbourhood with this !

Does this mean Labor politicians/unionists can't associate with each other under anti gang/criminal laws?

maybe we have to be more discerning with our votes, If one just ticks the box above the line

for whoever, that's what you get, trash. fill in all the boxes under the line and make your vote really count

both big L partys pay their hacks off by putting them on a party ticket , good people get dumped.......

3 months for 24k of union dues. How much should Abbot get for 93k of OUR money?

so what did the mad monk give Pauline Hanson

same thing here with that polly who ran over and killed the cyclist

it just goes to show s..t don't stick if ya got mates,....... just cleaning under my fingernails.....

gibberjoe said..


maybe we have to be more discerning with our votes, If one just ticks the box above the line

for whoever, that's what you get, trash. fill in all the boxes under the line and make your vote really count

both big L partys pay their hacks off by putting them on a party ticket , good people get dumped.......

Spot on

pweedas said..

sausage said..
He's just been released on bail after appealing the sentence - he has more hide than an elephant. Appeal to be heard in November...you've got to be 'ken joking.

Gee,.. and after that command performance he gave in parliament when he got up and gave that apparently sincere speech on his supposed innocence.

I take the fact that he is now appealing the sentence indicates he still thinks he was entitled to pay his brothel bills on a union credit card.
That sort of indicates that it might be standard procedure for the use of union credit cards.

And I take that as indicating he hasn't changed a bit.!!!

On that basis, when the case comes up on appeal I would not be so inclined to suspend 9 months of the sentence and he can do the full 12 months.

How many times have we ever seen a sentence increased after an appeal, appealing is an automatic formality as they can be fairly certain of getting a reduction of some sort.

If you go to independent australia site and wade through the 70-odd posts on the jacksonville saga, you'll see that there is certainly a big scope for him to have been framed. They take a pro-tommo line I think but there's a lot of eye opening stuff in it. I only read some, up to a year ago..

From memory:

Kathy Jackson (start witness at tommo trial) is certainly just as guilty or more, not to mention strong LNP/Abbott ties.

Michael Williamson, jackson's hubby, in charge of investingating tommo at Fair Work Oz.

?? Jackson, Kathy Ex hubby, on record telling tommo 'will ruin your reputation by using hookers' etc

Various other grubs also various other nefarious parts to play.

Kate Mclymont, fairfax journo behind most of tommo investigation/vilification, has own ax to grind.

It's a long long read so could one of you please go and read it start to finish and report back??

Carantoc said..

Yep - here is the Murdoch/LNP line:

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Can't be bothered doing the reading, prefer to regurgitate the 5% of the story you're being fed?

ikw777 said..

kiteboy dave said..

If you go to independent australia site and wade through the 70-odd posts on the jacksonville saga, you'll see that there is certainly a big scope for him to have been framed. They take a pro-tommo line I think but there's a lot of eye opening stuff in it. I only read some, up to a year ago..

From memory:

Kathy Jackson (start witness at tommo trial) is certainly just as guilty or more, not to mention strong LNP/Abbott ties.

Michael Williamson, jackson's hubby, in charge of investingating tommo at Fair Work Oz.

Jeff Jackson, Kathy Ex hubby, on record telling tommo 'will ruin your reputation by using hookers' etc

Various other grubs like Marco Bolano have various other nefarious parts to play.

Kate Mclymont, fairfax journo behind most of tommo investigation/vilification, has own ax to grind.

It's a long long read so could one of you please go and read it start to finish and report back??

Jackson is working her arse off in an attempt to dodge prosecution.

Aaand she'd done it.
I think she was 'brought into the fold' officially when giving the guest of honour speech at HR Nicholls dinner.

A quick look at HR Nicholls Society?s website shows just how close its ties are with the Liberal Party. Former Howard Government industrial relations minister Peter Reith is a board member, for example, and other notable names on the list of who contributes to this Society are Tony Abbott (there?s that name again), Eric Abetz, Peter Costello, Michael Kroger? the list goes on and on ? even Andrew Bolt gets a mention.

Even more strangely, for a union rep, Jackson is due to be guest of honour and give a speech at the HR Nicholls Society annual dinner on June 12th.

After that she became untouchable despite allegedly embezzling up to 50 times as much as tommo.

And here's the sealer:
http://www.afr.com/p/national/abbott_praises_honest_kathy_jackson_XpNd76Q8KPZ0pbJe55LM2O

More..
www.independentaustralia.net/article-display/how-jackson-lawler-and-abbott-tangled-thomson-with-the-hsu,4131

echunda I think you are getting confused with Michael Williamson who was sentenced today to 7.5yrs with 5 being non-parole. He was found to have defrauded the Union for approx. $1 million and enlisting family and friends to cover up his crime.