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Gillard refuses to deny receiving $5000 deposited in her bank account by an AWU member on directions from a corrupt AWU head

Asked today if she remembered receiving the cash, Ms Gillard blasted the reporting of the matter and said she had done nothing wrong.

”There is not one substantiated allegation in today’s Australian - it does not contain one allegation of wrongdoing by me,” she told reporters…

“This matter has been trawled over for the best part of 20 years, and at the end of it being trawled over for the best part of 20 years there is not one finding of wrongdoing by me,” she said.

“And there’s a reason for that - I didn’t do anything wrong.”

Ms Gillard dismissed the reports as a “smear”.

“This is smear pure and simple and I’m not going to dignify it by becoming involved in it,” she said.

Asked if she remembered getting the $5,000 from Mr Wilson, Ms Gillard said: “I’ve just dealt with the nature of these smears.”

Asked if “unsubstantiated” meant “untrue” and there had not been a cash deposit, Ms Gillard repeated that there was no allegation of wrongdoing against her…

It is not known where Mr Wilson got the funds and there is no evidence, nor is it suggested, that Ms Gillard asked for the payment or knew of its origins.