This Friday may be the end of the ALP Traill for Stuey

Following Monday's shambles of a meeting when the Queensland Labor Party couldn't even gather a quorum together to terminate outspken Cairns union activist, Stuey Traill, the meeting is now planned for Friday.

I have also had a barrage of email correspondence from Mike Bailey, the vice president of the Cairns branch of the ALP.

"I must also say I see your rejection of anyone’s anonymous contribution as breathtaking hypocrisy when you run comments from an anonymous source," Mike Bailey wrote to me yesterday. "Personally, I view anonymous comments in the same vein as voluntary polling – lacking credibility."

He also steadfastly believes that Stuey Traill and Peter Simpson's membership review is nothing to do with the public campaign they have waged against privatisation.

"You keep saying I supported privatisation, I really must ask where does it say in that motion [below] anything about privitisation?" Mike Bailey wrote in a raft of messages from his government email address - Mike.BAILEY@communities.qld.gov.au.

"I disagree that the issue around Traill’s proposed expulsion is privatisation - as I said previously, it’s about his gross disloyalty – no more, no less," Mike Bailey says. "He has ever right to criticise, me, Anna Bligh or whoever he likes, but to go as far as he did warrants action being taken. If he is indeed expelled, you and I know that he will not be silenced, he will simply be doing it from outside the party."

However the last paragraph of the "urgency motion" from the 2009 party conference, details the consultation that was meant to occur on the privatisation matter. It never did. Simple as that.

Here's the resolution put forward to the last State Labor Conference:

• “That the 2009 Queensland ALP State Conference acknowledges the damaging and far reaching effects of the Global Financial Crisis on the Queensland economy.
  
  This Conference further recognises that the global recession is causing unprecedented hardship, unemployment and loss of State revenue.
  
  The Conference endorses the State Government’s priorities of jobs and infrastructure.
  
  Further, given the Government’s decision to implement the Renewing Queensland Plan (as announced in Parliament on 2 June 2009), Conference calls on the Bligh Government to commit to ongoing negotiations with unions in this process to protect job security and working Conditions.
  

"No mention of privatisation here!" Mike Bailey says.

Are you blind Mr Bailey, or don't you understand the Queen's Egrish? [sic, intentional]

As Raj Patel writes on his Cairns Report, Stuey Traill helped get rid of John Howard and drew people back to the Labor Party, and today they want to get rid of him.

This from former member for Liechardt, Jim Turnour's maiden speech in 2007...

• "Where’s Warren? campaign, driven by Stuart Trail and the Electrical Trades Union. Stuart Trail would go on to become the ACTU Your Rights at Work coordinator in Leichhardt, and there is no doubt that the community activism the entire union movement created on the ground in Leichhardt galvanised opposition to the Work Choices laws and drew people back to the Labor Party," Jim Turnour said.
  
  "Thank you, Stuart Trail and Kevin O’Sullivan, for leading the campaign and all the unionists who worked so hard to get rid of the Howard government. We could not have done it without you."