In a previous post I wondered why the lurid series by Larry Pickering about crooked union leaders and Julia Gillard was not being taken up by the main stream media – though the content of the 5 part series by Pickering – “Is our Prime Minister a Cook?” – seemed quite explosive to me.
Well, it now seems to have reached the Sunday edition of Canberra Times:
(UPDATE! The same article is also in the SMH but it was on the web first in the Canberra Times. The Australian also carries a story about Julia Gillard and the loss of her job at the law firm of Slater & Gordon, which is then also reported on by The Telegraph. It looks like the msm are now running to jump onto the bandwagon started by Pickering.)
The PM, an old flame and a lot of smoke
Natalie O’Brien
19th August 2012
It is a lurid tale involving an old political cartoonist, a retired lawyer, the Prime Minister and her former boyfriend, an alleged fraudster.If you believe the cartoonist, Larry Pickering, whose dislike for Julia Gillard is palpable in his sometimes obscene cartoons, the scandalous details could finally bring down the Prime Minister.
But if you don’t buy the claims Pickering is peddling about Ms Gillard when she was a Slater & Gordon lawyer acting for her then lover, Bruce Wilson – an alleged embezzler of Australian Workers Union funds – why hasn’t she done anything to stop his vitriolic missives? ………..
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…….. Pickering said he was not surprised that Ms Gillard had not taken legal action against him, but wishes she would. ”It would open a can of worms,” he said.
However, he said his website was suffering an increasing number of cyber attacks trying to shut it down. On Friday the attacks were successful and his account was suspended.
”They may silence us for a while but the truth will out,” Pickering says. ”Much more to come.”
Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/the-pm-an-old-flame-and-a-lot-of-smoke-20120818-24f3m.html#ixzz23uexAKTd
One of Pickering’s websites – The Pickering Post – seems to be under attack and is suspended, but his second website is still open for business.
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