traderi1, I was unaware that Gillard had denied that union funds were used in the purchase of the property.
The answer your looking for may be in the information already released regarding the interview between Gillard and Slater and Gordon conducted at the time.
Other links to start your research regarding this issue are below.
Note the documents published in the 2007 article below include the $67,722.20 that The Age article included in their "new documents".
Gillard's stunning confession • by: By Glenn Milne • From:The Sunday Telegraph November 11, 2007 12:00AM
Ruptured Union Seeks Enemy Within Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday July 30, 1996 By MURRAY HOGARTH http://www.fortunetellers.com.au/fortunetellers-articles/1996/7/30/ruptured-union-seeks-enemy-within/
Scandal-mongering or good reporting? And the stuff-ups at ABC promos department pale beside this one:
Correction • by: The Australian • From:The Australian • August 29, 20119:26AM The Australian acknowledges these assertions are untrue. The Australian also acknowledges no attempt was made by anyone employed by, or associated with, The Australian to contact the Prime Minister in relation to this matter.
Milne debacle: how a 16 year old story was spiked by The Oz Andrew Crook| Aug 29, 2011 6:05PM
Glenn Milne has egg all over his face after the re-hired columnist filed an error-filled op-ed reviving discredited allegations that Prime Minister Julia Gillard had somehow been an accomplice to her one-time partner Bruce Wilson’s alleged fraud.
"....Michael Smith has insisted to us that the interview was backed by documentation, and was cleared by a senior defamation lawyer.... ....Graham Mott, the Fairfax Radio executive who stopped the interview, now retired, stands by his statement of last year, that it was not cleared...."
"...Franklin informed colleagues of his decision before asking the Prime Minister the question. "I leave The Australian on good terms, of my own accord, with no regrets, and continued affection for my colleagues and my editors," he said. "I finalised my plans with my editors and told my Canberra colleagues of my decision to take a voluntary redundancy well before I asked the Prime Minister that question."...'
"....Michael Smith has insisted to us that the interview was backed by documentation, and was cleared by a senior defamation lawyer.... ....Graham Mott, the Fairfax Radio executive who stopped the interview, now retired, stands by his statement of last year, that it was not cleared...."
"...Milne had previously written about the saga in 2007. But this morning the Walkleys brawler went further, stating that “Gillard shared a home in Fitzroy bought by Wilson using the embezzled funds.”
Crikey understands that this sentence, removed by News Limited lawyers four years ago, is false.
Now, the entire piece has been deleted from The Australian’s website, with the newspaper forced to issue a grovelling apology acknowledging that the “assertions are untrue”. Damningly, Milne had failed to ring the PM’s office for comment..."
