Sorry Fred, I thought this was way to important to be tagged on to a Crook thread.

NSW ALP, rotten to the core.

Unions, rotten to the core.

Federal ALP, rotten to the core.


"The coal miners' union is bracing itself for a damaging series of revelations from an anti-corruption inquiry involving a well respected former leader.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption's probe into the granting of mining licences to entities connected to the family of New South Wales Labor Party powerbroker Eddie Obeid has already damaged the ALP.

Now the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) is bracing itself for a reputational hit in the next part of the inquiry due to begin on Monday.

The CFMEU's former national secretary, John Maitland, is staying out of the public eye at the moment and has cancelled today's public auction of a $1.6 million farm near Kempsey on the NSW north coast.

However the former union veteran still has $5 million worth of property on the market, including a $3 million dollar property in Victoria owned through his family company Jonca.

Mr Maitland bought the farms after he became a multi-millionaire just four short years after retiring as CFMEU head.

That wealth came on the back of an investment of less than $200,000 and a mining licence issued by his friend, the then NSW mining minister Ian Macdonald.

It was the same year Mr Maitland became a Member of the Order of Australia, in recognition of his services to international and Australian industrial relations.

Now the unravelling of the story of the rise from union man to rich mining investor threatens to drag in his former union colleagues.

The ABC understands that a number of mining union officials have been called to give evidence to the ICAC about the Doyles Creek coal exploration licence, and the associated $10 million share price windfall to Mr Maitland.

Just two months after he left the union Mr Maitland began buying shares in a company called Nucoal
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Littledick, comprehension.

If in doubt ask Miss Borg or Giovanni to explain it to you.

Nah, best not as neither of them have friggen clue.

KJT1981 wrote on Mar 16^th, 2013 at 7:00am:



Tu tut tut.  And you couldn't even let Fred's posting get comments!  LOL  you had to cut and paste from HIS posting to make a new thread!  You really are a let down for Minto.

they dont want to read about corruption in the Labor camps... just the Libs...

I think their dirt tank is still digging...

I think its pretty much what I now think of labourites I have not seen one of them condemn their union masters for all thats coming out

it is crippling the Labor party but still they support them or try to change the subject.....

some are probably trying to tag Jackson to the widows fund...nothing would surprise me. anymore.the lengths they will go to cover for this mob.

John Smith wrote on Mar 16^th, 2013 at 9:39am:



Thanks JS.  Numberplate (shiny on one side, shyte on the other, two small nuts and screwed each end) is such an asset to our forums.  The people of Minto must absolutely worship her when she parades through Minto Mall in tracky dacks, thongs and hair curlers.