The most interesting part of the audit report — Grech calling on a Liberal Credit Suisse executive to help a struggling Liberal donor car dealer — was tellingly ignored by Malcolm Turnbull.
Utegate
Shanahan: Turnbull blames Grech, but blame pointless
Godwin Grech and Malcolm Turnbull both blame the other for the Utegate affair. Turnbull should have just apologised and moved on, writes Dennis Shanahan.
Turnbull blows it
Malcolm Turnbull has offered plenty of excuses but no answers over Godwin Grech and the fake email affair, demonstrating few of the leadership qualities voters want to see in a would-be PM, says Peter Hartcher.
Guy Rundle: Turnbull is dead
Malcolm Turnbull is dead. The prime bull is now a side of beef hanging from a hook.
Treasury knew about my very poor health, by Godwin Grech
Public official at the centre of the Utegate scandal, Godwin Grech, says that Treasury were well aware of his significant and ongoing health issues.
No-one forced Grech to concoct an email
Godwin Grech’s statement to The Australian needs to be considered carefully. Grech has both concocted an email and lied to a journalist in the past, and is also a man with extensive health problems.
Rudd and Swan totally exonerated by Auditor-General report
The most aggressive investigators in the Commonwealth have cleared the Prime Minister and, more notably, the Treasurer.
Other fake emails from Godwin Grech (as cited by Walter Slurry)
The Utegate email was just the tip of the iceberg: Walter Slurry goes through Godwin Grech’s sent folder.
Utegate roars back to life
The fake email affair has roared back into life today and threatens more grief for Malcolm Turnbull. We track the developments as they happen.
Australian Story not sympathetic to Turnbull
The analysis of Malcolm Turnbull by journalists after the Utegate affair was tough, but justified, writes Paul Colgan.
Grech as political scapegoat?
Godwin Grech’s actions in the administration of the Utegate affair are to come under scrutiny today with the release of the Auditor-General’s OzCar report. But does all the blame lie on him?
Turnbull caught in messy OzCar affair
Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull’s actions at a parliamentary ball, held two days before Godwin Grech gave testimony on his in the OzCar scheme, are suspicious, writes Phillip Coorey.
Grech’s health destroyed by Utegate
Public servant Godwin Grech’s health problems are severe, including depression and stage three kidney disease. His workload has been blamed for some of his health problems.
Good public servant turned bad
Godwin Grech was a workaholic public servant, whose career — and health — have been destroyed by the Utegate scandal, writes Dennis Shanahan.
New calls for Turnbull’s resignation
Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull is under new calls for his resignation, with Godwin Grech saying that Turnbull had “intimate involvement” in the handling and leaking of the Utegate email.
Godwin Grech: I faked email
Former Treasury official Godwin Grech has admitted to penning the fake email at the centre of the Utegate saga, claiming he was merely reproducing a real email that had been lost and was facing “strong pressure” from above to “land OzCar”.
Australian Story does Utegate
Tonight’s Australian Story focuses on Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull during the debacle that was the week of Utegate.
Utegate report driving pollies’ fears
Politicians including opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull are nervously awaiting the release of an official report on the Utegate affair, writes Phillip Coorey
Backseat drivers: News Ltd and Utegate
How did News Ltd’s editors, senior correspondents and commentators become parties to such an inept, misguided and ludicrous scam to ambush the Prime Minister and Treasurer and try to force them out of office? asks Alex Mitchell.
Tips and rumours: Asking the right questions on Utegate
A tipster says the search for the Utegate email was a case of hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, and what was Victorian MP George Seitz doing at Westminster?
Morgan: Labor up after Utegate
The first Roy Morgan face-to-face poll to catch the full force of the OzCar aftermath shows Labor’s two-party lead up from 55-45 to 58-42, says William Bowe.
Godwin Grech: the plot thickens
Public servant Godwin Grech is back in hot water — this time over his involvement in the Western Bulldogs’ scheme to build a gaming venue in Melbourne, according to The Age.
The PM’s war on News Limited
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has launched “a concerted attack on the media in the form of News Ltd newspapers: the group that broke what’s now known as the fake email story,” writes Glenn Milne.
Coorey:Australian Story catches Turnbull during Utegate
Whether the Utegate moments make the final cut is up to “the good folk at Aunty”, says Phillip Coorey but the ABC has 30 hours of the time as Turnbull realises the smoking gun email was fake.
Hockey showed substance and maturity and got kicked for it
So spare a thought for Joe Hockey, who on Tuesday spoke intelligently and candidly and has copped a bagging for his troubles.
