Opposition claims 'cover-up' as more AWU files go missing
CRUCIAL court files detailing the Australian Workers Union's discovery of internal fraud 17 years ago and the fight to overturn redundancies to dodgy union officials - including Julia Gillard's former boyfriend Bruce Wilson - have mysteriously vanished.
Yesterday the Federal Court confirmed that key documents filed in the Industrial Relations Court's Queensland registry in 1995 by then AWU national president Bill Ludwig had been lost in the past nine months.
Julie Bishop called yesterday for a police investigation into their disappearance, saying "unless they are located, the assumption must be that they have been stolen".
"Unless there are plausible explanations as to why official records would go missing from record-keeping institutions, such as WA state archives and the Federal Court, this is starting to look like a sinister cover-up and the deliberate destruction of documents which could otherwise throw light on the true involvement of a number of people in a massive fraud," the Deputy Opposition Leader said.
