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13/06/14

15:21

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Remember this in 2007?

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2062452.htm

JULIA GILLARD: Good evening, Tony.

TONY JONES: Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?

JULIA GILLARD: (Laughs) Tony, I think that question shows how silly all of this is getting, though I suspect in this interview, probably the Howard Government would think you're the dangerous radical. After all, I'm only from the Labor Party, you're from the ABC.

TONY JONES: Well look, seriously, Peter Costello has thrown this out. Let's deal with it properly. What's the Socialist Forum? Were you an organiser for it? And when did that happen, if you were?

JULIA GILLARD: Tony, it's 2007 and I'm a 46-year-old woman. What Peter Costello is referring to is more than 20 years ago when I was in my 20s. I was a full-time university student and I had a part-time job for an organisation called Socialist Forum, which was a sort of debating society. It ultimately amalgamated with the Fabian society, which of course is a long-running ideas and debating group in Australian politics and indeed in British politics before Australian politics. I've worked in the cleric and administrative work.

TONY JONES: It wasn't a front organisation for Communists?

JULIA GILLARD: Certainly not. It was an organisation where people who identified themselves as progressives, some in the Labor Party, some outside the Labor Party, would come together and would talk about ideas. I did clerical and administrative work, Tony. This is so long ago. It's the days before modern computers and the internet, in the days where if you wanted to put out a meeting notice to people you wouldn't send an email, you'd get out an envelope and put it in your IBM electric typewriter and type up the address and then get the next one. That's the sort of thing I used to do.

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Roger Wilson stood for a seat in the Victorian parliament in 1982 for the Communist Party. Here is an election flyer

The authorisation for the ad is by another member of the Party B.Taft [see at foot]

Here are the Minutes of the 1st Meeting of the Socialist Forum, whose Rules were drafted by J. Gillard. She was founding member

Bernie Taft and Roger Wilson were foundation members of this group, formed expressly to promote the aims of the old Communist Party but without the stigma of the name. Other foundation members were:
. Julia Gillard [who incidentally was a senior office bearer, not the typist she lied to us all about on Lateline
. one, Jenny Macklin

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It seems Bill Shorten loathes Communists - even disguised ones - too. From paragraph 118 of Bob Kernohan's statement filed in the Heydon RC this week

“118. I knew of Ms. GILLARD back then only in passing at ALP conferences. Bill SHORTEN knew her better than me and he told me that WILSON and GILLARD was an item going back to 1992. I remember that Bill SHORTEN told me on numerous occasions that he despised GILLARD because of her links to
the Communist Party.”

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