This is up there with the Tippett thread.
Anyway, Abbott's sole job was to have Gillard gone by Christmas and an early election. Gillard is still there, and will remain, and his own approvals are at rock bottom. Ever since policy became a taking point the polls have gone from a consistent 56-44 trend to a consistent 52-48 trend and closing.
Have a nice Christmas, Tony.
It's been under-reported but on Sky News Nation, last Thurs night, NSW OPP Leader John Robertson, union heavyweight, said that the association was "odd", he'd never experienced or ever heard of anyone else doing that and that re-election campaign slush funds were always done by the officials themselves just setting up a bank account and putting contributions into it.
Now Crows, the SOLE reason why Robbo was saying all that (who knows if he's lying or not) is because the NSW Right is packing the shits about the way this issue is feeding into the HSU scandal plus corruption inquiry into Labor govt putting a large no of NSW federal seats at grave risk. Significantly, it was the NSW Right that rolled the PM on the Palestine vote.
JG's position is far more vulnerable than you realise.
So sadly for you Abbott must be feeling very content going into the break that the entire last week of the parliamentary session was devoted to the issue of union corruption and the PM's involvement in it.
The story just grew more legs last week, and the NSW Right knows it.
btw - the reason the Wilson/Blewitt/Gillard asociation had to be incorporated was so that the construction companies who were going to be hit on could claim their "contributions" as tax deductions.