Gillard’s unanswered questions

Writing at the H.R. Nicholls Society website, Peter O’Brien reviews the former PM’s dealings with light-fingered former lover Bruce Wilson and her turn before the Trade Unions Royal Commission:

There is no question that a fraud was perpetrated and that Gillard was involved. But what was her culpability? Gillard was exonerated by the Royal Commission primarily because there was no ‘smoking gun’. That may be true but it is quite possible for an offender to be convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence alone. And circumstantial evidence we have in spades.

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