the australian had it covered They had an extremely good journalist covering the gillard boyfriend story called heley thomas.
he established that gillard had left the employ as result of doing work for her conman boyfriend and that she had not recorded meetings she had with the client (her boyfriend) to set up the bank accounts.
From memory Holmes said on Media Watch that all his great work was buried in an avalanche of bad journalism ie like Pickering Post
As result Gillard managed to sidestep the issue
what followed then was that the Labor Party dug up a whole lot of allegations made over 35 years ago, the Jones speech and the issue has almost all but been forgotten.