Julia Gillard gets massive applause in Great Hall, page-8

"Julia Gillard merits respect from the whole of Australia for
putting children first..."

Unless those children live in Kalgoorlie region of WA!
Julia went to Kalgoorlie with Bruce Wilson and spoke to AWU members.
He later cleaned out the AWU Widows and Orphans Fund.
Tuesday 17 March 1992

Front page story the Kalgoorlie Miner - key points

• 700-800 miners belong to and own the Fatality fund
• it's managed by the AWU Mining Division Committee in Kalgoorlie/Boulder
• Wilson announces a meeting of the members of the fund will take place on 18 April “to endorse changes to the fund, including the setting up of a trust”.

The meeting of members is a requirement of the preexisting fund's rules (since 1946) prior to any substantial change to the management of the fund.​

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Wednesday 15 April 1992​

Trust Deed purporting to take control of the AWU Fatality and Death Benefit Fund's​

assets signed in Perth.​

Julia Gillard is the Slater and Gordon solicitor listed as responsible for the file.​

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There was no extraordinary general meeting of the members of the fund to approve the ​

change of control.​

The money was stripped from their local (Kalgoorlie) control and under the terms​

of the new Trust Deed effective control over their money was handed to Wilson. ​

He had a wide discretion as to how he'd spend it.​

The production of this Trust Deed was the last identifiable deliverable from Gillard and ​

Slater and Gordon regarding the Fatality and Death Benefit Fund for the next several ​

months.​

Saturday, 18 April 1992

Wilson's promised meeting of members of AWU Fatality and Death Benefit Fund “to ​

endorse changes to the fund, including the setting up of a trust” does not take place.​

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Trust deed had already been executed without a meeting of members of the fund to ​

endorse the change of control.​

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