Nationality Australian Occupation lawyer | Known for corruption cases Name Nicola Gobbo | |
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Nicola Gobbo is a prominent criminal lawyer in Melbourne, Australia.
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1996
Gobbo first came to public attention during the 1996 Australian federal election. In the last week of the campaign, ALP Treasurer Ralph Willis used letters purportedly from Jeff Kennett, a Liberal, criticising Liberal leader John Howard, but the letters were quickly exposed as forgeries. Gobbo, an ALP member, publicly claimed that the forger was a Liberal staffer who had intended for the forgery to pass initial inspection then rebound on the ALP.
Witness
Gobbo was a witness against Paul Dale, a former policeman convicted of corruption. An eleven-page statement she drafted asserted she had clandestinely serving as a courier, passing messages between her clients and their confederates, when they were in jail. Her statement said that she passed messages between Hodson and Dale.
She has asserted that Australian authorities have not fulfilled assurances made to her about protecting her safety. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation repeated that Gobbo asserted she had received death threats due to her planned testimony.
Personal
When the hit TV show Desperate Housewives first premiered in Australia in 2004 Gobbo was one of the prominent Australian women from whom The Age sought a reaction.
She is the cousin of a Melbourne barrister, Jeremy Gobbo QC. She is also the niece of the former Governor of Victoria Sir James Gobbo.