| Personal intervention: JULIA Gillard admitted during a secret internal probe to writing to a government department to help overcome its objections to the creation of an association for her then boyfriend and client, union official Bruce Wilson. A record of interview between Ms Gillard and her law firm, Slater & Gordon, in September 1995, reveals the association was initially regarded as ineligible because of its "trade union" status. Ms Gillard overcame the obstacle by writing to the Commissioner for Corporate Affairs in Western Australia in 1992. Ammunition: Tony Abbott told the Nine Network this morning the revelation was damaging to the Prime Minister. "It demonstrates that she misled the West Australian Corporate Affairs Commission, and that is obviously a very serious matter." Transcript: An extract from Julia Gillard's interview with Slater & Gordon senior partner Peter Gordon on September 11, 1995. Today: Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are in Canberra for the final parliamentary sitting day of the year. Muck up day: MPs will struggle to find anything nice to say about their opponents today in customary end-of-year valedictories. The last day of parliament in what both sides say has been a "toxic" year will be dominated again by the bitter debate over the AWU slush fund scandal. Protection: Newspaper and TV stations have been banned from digitally altering images of MPs under new media rules announced yesterday. The move comes after The Daily Telegraph ran a controversial page 1 image depicting former speaker and serial political defector Peter Slipper as a rat in November last year. ***Email Capital Circle. Click here to subscr | 
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