When Kathy Jackson called in the wallopers, the stakes were high. Because a federal defeat for Thomson and his allies would enhance the power base of Victoria’s two other factional king makers, Bill Shorten and Stephen Conroy who are both aligned with the new guard in the HSU. And we all know what Shorten’s ultimate ambition is.
What a tangled web we weave especially when you consider Thomson is married to Zoe Arnold, a former Transport Workers Union official and adviser to former NSW Health Minister Reba Meagher. Alex Williamson, daughter of HSU national president Mike Williamson, is an adviser to Gillard. And, of course, as mentioned, Kathy Jackson, who blew the whistle on Thomson, was married to former Victorian state HSU secretary Jeff Jackson.
Truly the NSW Disease has arrived in Canberra.
Bloody hell! Is 'incestously nespotic' a tautology - or simply 'business as usual' for the ALP?
When you add the fact that the Governor General is Bill Shorten's mother in law, the whole sorry exercise becomes surreal.
If you were a novelist and submitted a plot line like this to a publisher, you'd be laughed out of his office, told it was impossibly contrived and to 'get real'.