Blewitt Affidavit (Redacted) in The Criminal Prosecution of Julia Gillard
Ralph Blewitt's evidence sworn in Perth, Western Australia for production in the criminal prosecution of Julia Eileen GILLARD for giving false evidence under oath to the Trade Union Royal Commission.
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Blewitt Affidavit (Redacted) in The Criminal Prosecution of Julia Gillard
Ralph Blewitt's evidence sworn in Perth, Western Australia for production in the criminal prosecution of Julia Eileen GILLARD for giving false evidence under oath to the Trade Union Royal Commission.
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Form 49 (version 5)
UceR 35.1
AFFIDAVIT OF Ralph Edwyn BLEWITT Fe
DOWNING CENTRE LOCAL COURT - SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES
Court Local Court, New South Wales
Division Criminal Division
list
Registry Downing Centre
Case number
GILLARD, Julia Eileen - Give misleading or deceptive evidence to Royal Commission
Prosecutor ‘Michael Philip Smith - as a private citizen
Defendant Julia Eileen GILLARD
FILING DETAILS
Filed for ‘Michael Philip SMITH - Prosecutor
‘Filed in relation to
#Legal representative Asa private citizen
#Legal representative
reference AFFIDAVIT
Name Ralph Edwyn BLEWITT
Address
Occupation _War Veteran Pension Recipient
Date
| say on oath:
1 am currently a Totally and Permanently Incapacitated (TPl) War Veteran in receipt
of a TPI veterans’ pension. My incapacity arose as a result of my active war
service in Vietnam.
2 Prior to 23 April 1982 Julia GILLARD and I jointly filled out an Application to
Incorporate the Australian Workers’ Union - Workplace Reform Association. Now
produced and shown to me and marked "A" is a true copy of the Application form
Ms GILLARD and | jointly completed
3, On 23 April 1992 | lodged the Application with the WA Office of State Corporate
Affairs. One or two weeks later I received a letter from that Office informing me that
the Application had been refused because the entity appeared to be a trade union
and was ineligible for incorporation by that Office.
4 Between about 13 May 1992 and 26 May 1992 | was involved in various
discussions with Ms Gillard and my boss at the time, AWU WA Branch Secretary
Bruce Wilson about how to respond to the refusal to incorporate. Wilson and
Gillard were trying to find a way to have the association incorporated by the Office
of Corporate Affairs and not under industrial relations legislation like a union.
5. Those discussions with Gillard and Wilson took place in Perth, Kalgoorlie and
Melbourne,
6 (On Tuesday 13 May 2014 | appeared before the Royal Commission into Trade
Union Governance and Corruption
7. During my appearance Dr Christine Hanscombe QC handed me what appeared to
be a letter from “Ray Neal of the Office of State Corporate Affairs” and a
memorandum signed "Julia". Now produced and marked with the letters “B* and
‘C’ are that letter and the memorandum as tendered to the Royal Commission and
exhibited here: https:/\ leunionroyalcammission,gov.au/Hearinas/
Documents/Evidence13May2014/BlewittMFI7.pdf
8 The evidence | gave to the Trade Union Royal Commission was wholly truthful. 1
had not seen either the memorandum nor the letter at any time prior to my
appearance at the Royal Commission
ML 10.
11
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17.
18,
19,
Now produced and marked with the letter ‘D" is a true copy of that part of the
transcript of my examination at the Trade Union Royal Commission where | was
asked about the letter and memorandum.
On 10 September 2014 I watched the proceedings of the Trade Union Royal
Commission as it was broadcast live to the internet,
| saw Julia Gillard give evidence to the Royal Commission about the same
memorandum and letter | was shown (marked “B" and "C" in this affidavit). | saw
that Ms Gillard was shown the memorandum and letter at pages 23 and 24 of
bites www tradeunionroyalcommission gov.au/Hearings/Documents!
Evidence 1 0September2014/GillardMFI1 Tab?Pagess-25 pdf,
Now produced and shown to me and marked with the letter “E” is a copy of the
transcript of part of Ms Gillard's evidence to the Royal Commission which was
about the letter and memorandum.
heard Ms Gillard give the following evidence to the Royal Commission, “The
advice I gave to Mr Blewit is the advice you see before you on page 24." (ie the
in this Affidavit),
memorandum marked “
Ms Gillard's evidence was wholly false, Ms Gillard did not give me legal advice to
the effect set out in that Memorandum. I never received the Memorandum. | was
ever shown it, nor did anyone ever speak to me about it until Tuesday, 13 May
2014 at the Royal Commission,
| was present in Melbourne either on the day the memorandum was allegedly
written, Le, Thursday 21 and/or the next day Friday 22 May 1992, I was there
with Ms Gillard and her then boyfriend Bruce Wilson,
Linow Iwas in Melbourne at the time because | have a vivid recollection of going to
and setting in Melbourne after my retum fom actve seniee in Vietnam n soos
urther recall attending 2 iver ot he EI
Carton afer
Wilson and I went to Melbourne on Thursday 21 or Friday 22 May 1992 to meet
with Gillard to discuss our response to the fact that the Commissioner for Corporate
Affairs had refused to incorporate the Australian Workers’ Union Workplace Reform
Association.
{know that we had discussions at the office of Slater and Gordon on Friday, 22 May
1992 about how to respond to the Commissioner’
