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Thompsen Witness Comes Forward

22 Tuesday May 2012

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Tripe

The front bar of the Pig’s Arms was abuzz with the news that one of Rosie’s[1] girls had “come forward” with revealing and damning evidence relating to the Thompsen affair.[2]

A Mr Thompsen was a regular visitor to Rosie’s back room and was known to request the services of a Hooker.

John Lee Hooker

Miss Letoe is reported by usually ultra-reliable news sauces to have said that Mr Thompsen was often seen to “get it on” and “rock his socks off” in the company of another Hooker.

He seemed to prefer slide and sometimes bottleneck and was often participating in what he referred to as “walking bass” activities of an unspecified nature.

“Most of our ‘Johns’ – referring to their fondness for working with known recalcitrants loosely known as “John Thomas” – came in straight off the street but we bend them to our better purposes and send them slip-sliding away.  Short a little bit – and also short of their cash” said Miss Letoe, smiling sweetly.

“But this dude was different.  He was a no-cash, credit-card wielding man whose face revealed a worldliness beyond his years.  He must have been an old single guy – he was into the Grecian 2000 – more like 2020.  And no way could he have been married – I mean only a total dickwad married bloke would use a credit card to buy a hooker.  I mean, who else would go through his papers except his wife ?”

When asked how he came to Rosie’s, Miss Letoe corrected the reporter from news saying “No, he comes after he arrives – usually in a taxi.  I know I picked up the cabcharge chits when I was ironing his trousers”.

“And what line of business do you think Mr Thompsen was in ?”.

“He was in the art business.  He was always banging on about being framed and stuff, but if you ask me – and I gather you ARE asking me, I personally think he was as innocent as the driven snow.  I mean he was often saying that his friends in some nursing operation didn’t have a prayer”.

“He seemed to be a man of simple tastes – he brought the hotdog and we brought the buns”, said Miss Letoe.

“So what do you make of all the parliamentary allegations circulating ?”

“I think they’re mostly tripe” said Miss Letoe.

“So HSU has no resonance for you ?”

“Sure, I seem to recall that he is a card-carrying member of the Highly-Sexed Ungulates”.

“Bull !”

“Precisely”

[1] Rosie’s Tattoo Emporium and House of Pain, Cnr of Heartache and Disillusionment, St Peters

[2] No relation to any actual Thompsen, you might have even thought of thinking of.

When We See a lot of Gold, We Know it’s time to go to the Museum

18 Friday May 2012

Posted by in Lehan Winifred Ramsay

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Museum Peace

Painting and Story by Lehan Winifred Ramsay

There is a story in the Australian newspapers that I find very interesting. It concerns a politician called Craig Thompson who has been accused of misusing the funds of a union when he worked there. There is proof that he used a lot of money on prostitutes, expensive meals, travel, etc; having free use of the union credit cards. Mr Thompson is now ain independent member assisting  the federal government.

A government agency has investigated and released a report saying he acted fraudulently. Mr Thompson has refused to speak about this for months and months, but after this report came out, he went on television and said that he had been threatened by people in the union, who said that they would set him up to ruin his career by exactly the things that he has been accused of.

I’m not sure what it is that makes this case so interesting. Perhaps it’s the response of the press. That’s ridiculous, they all say. But actually my impression is that it is not at all ridiculous.

The press loves a good scandal. So it strikes me as particularly odd that they would not want to even indulge this new element in the scandal. It might be that they can see that the possible result would be the discrediting of the unions, and the undermining of the Labor government for all the worst reasons. The Labor government’s traditional base was unions, of course. And then, of course, it’s unusual for someone to come out and talk conspiracy after being so long silent. I guess he was expecting the report to have investigated his claims. But of course they didn’t. They limited their investigation to exactly what they were told to look for, and kept their eyes away from anything else that might have had a connection or been a contributing factor.

Yes, I well understand how they came to the conclusion that they did. But now, if Mr Thompson’s confidence in speaking out can indicate that he does have some evidence to back up his claims, it will be interesting to see if anyone in the press can get past their fear of this situation and take another look at it. At the moment, not even the Liberal, opposition, conservative press will touch it.