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Retired army officer. Speaker of truth to power. Spins a good yarn @MichaelWestBiz . Op ed bylines @canberratimes @australian @dailytelegraph etc. Views my own.
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New scandal emerges over the
#auspol
govt's failure to hold top ADF generals to account for high-level command failures in Afghanistan, 2 weeks after Defence Minister
@RichardMarlesMP
“closed out” the govt's response to the Brereton Report.
@MichaelWestBiz
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For the record:
Not one Afghan I've been supporting has been evacuated on a RAAF flight. Several reached the gates of Kabul airport but were turned away by ADF personnel. The *only* help I've received has come from US or UK military personnel. I thank them for saving lives.
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One Australian journalist bothered to look through the blatant spin on the submarines "announcement."
#ICYMI
: "We're going to have no new subs, pay more, [and] there's no design."
Today the PM announced a new deal for nuclear submarine technology with the US and UK.
But
@PeterHartcherAO
says the announcement was just a "great theatrical production".
#TheDrum
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What an absolute clown and a bully you are
@JarrodBleijieMP
. I am an
@AustralianArmy
veteran of 28 years service, including 6 operational deployments. The only thing disrespectful and bratty here is you falsely invoking "veterans" in your bullying.
#OzVeteransVote
Shame on her parents for using her as a political pawn.Stop the silly protest and stand and sing proudly your National Anthem. Refusing to stand disrespects our country and our veterans. Suspension should follow if she continues to act like a brat
#qldpol
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Just in case anyone is "surprised" or "shocked" by the NACC announcement regarding Robodebt: Brereton and Campbell are part of the Sydney University Regiment fraternity. This is the kind of readily available info legacy media journos have been ignoring for years. But now they're
@RonniSalt
@NACCgovau
General David Hurley (who ignored televised war crimes allegations), Kathryn Campbell (who oversaw RoboDebt) and Paul Brereton (who, as head of the NACC and an IGADF Inquiry, investigated neither) on parade together.
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Julian Assange's lawyer Jen Robinson
@suigenerisjen
:
"I want to make sure we recognise David McBride, who is in prison here in Australia, for having revealed information about war crimes in Afghanistan. It is unacceptable he's in prison, and I cannot stand here today to talk
Julian Assange is back babe!
In the below video his lawyer gives PM Anthony Albanese, a known whistleblower hater, the middle finger & points out that David McBride's jailing is unacceptable. Assange must of had a cramp given it took him almost 24 hrs to piss off Albo
#auspol
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#Insiders
has been a joke for years. Who cares about the Sunday morning opines of Canberra press gallery 'insiders' and their pollie mates?
@friendlyjordies
expose on Barilaro already has 687,000 views in less than 48 hours.
Bit of a hint there for legacy media 'journalists'.
ICYMI
#Insiders
@friendlyjordies
exposes John Barilaro's corruption & mainstream media (incl. Insiders) is ignoring it.
We cannot rely on our 4th Estate to be our 4th Estate, so WE have to be our 4th Estate.
Tell everyone about this & RT.
🐝
#auspol
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Please keep signing and sharing this petition for
#auspol
Attorney-General
@MarkDreyfusKCMP
to drop the draconian, vengeful prosecutions of whistleblowers David McBride
@MurdochCadell
and
@Richard_D_Boyle
.
Petition here -
Thank you!
A message for
#auspol
Attorney-General
@MarkDreyfusKCMP
:
"If you have one shred of integrity you'll drop the unjust and ridiculous prosecution of David McBride, and you'll instead prosecute the actual criminals who now lead our defence force ..."
Delivered by
@BelgraveRaine
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The elephant in the room is why Pezzullo hasn't been prosecuted for the same natsec offences as David McBride, given the number of classified/political leaks from his office over the years. A question the ABC will never ask.
Mike Pezzullo tells
@FergusonNews
he accepts his “mistake” in dishonouring and abusing his insider Canberra power. This guy is a disgrace. His administration of national/border security and detention contracts requires further investigation by
@NACCgovau
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Making preparations:
🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA'S BADGE OF SHAME IN FLAMES🔥
Today I am burning my
#Afghanistan
campaign medal.
At 12 noon I will present the remains to my
#auspol
Federal Member of Parliament Mr Julian Simmonds MP.
#SaveOurAfghanTerps
Statement -
Media Statement:
🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA'S BADGE OF SHAME IN FLAMES🔥
Today I am burning my
#Afghanistan
campaign medal.
At 12 noon I will present the remains to my
#auspol
Federal Member of Parliament Mr Julian Simmonds MP.
#SaveOurAfghanTerps
Audio/video -
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Geoffrey Watson SC on Paul Brereton as the head of the NACC:
“I wouldn’t pick a military person to run any kind of body like this.”
As a former Army officer with first-hand experience dealing with IGADF, I laughed when Brereton was given this role.
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So the MINDEF (& former senior ADF officer) who defamed a cohort of her subordinates as "cold blooded murderers" based on the findings of an admin inquiry, to save her political backside, is now the 'victim' of a 'hit job'?!? Spare us this drivel Linda. 🙄
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Every Australian soldier is in fact trained that they are legally obliged to disobey unlawful orders, as part of their training in the laws of armed conflict. That's how perverse these court rulings are. The ADF will need to revise its LOAC training, putting it at odds with IHL.
@MurdochCadell
Yeah. As an ex Commanding Officer in Army I am just gobsmacked & appalled at the courts decision regarding "duty".
It's as if there's been a deliberate ignorance of the concept employed so as to favour the prosecution.
I didn't have to follow orders in certain scenarios!
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Australia is now a corrupt police state. This is not why I served in the Army for 28 years, defending the institutions of democracy, for them to be prostituted by
#auspol
to do the dirty work of their corporate cronies.
@4corners
@SteveCannane
@neighbour_s
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This is the report the
#auspol
Albanese government buried until after they jailed David McBride.
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Anthony Albanese's Australia is a country in which you can be prosecuted in court, under threat of life imprisonment, while the government uses spurious claims of "public interest immunity" and "national security" to withhold the actual evidence. Shameful.
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A good piece here from Laura Tingle fwiw, but we can hardly expect IDF commanders to be held accountable for IHL violations while Australia buries its collective head in the sand over senior ADF command responsibility for our own alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. Wake me up when
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#Breaking
: Australian senators call on Prime Minister
@AlboMP
and Attorney-General
@MarkDreyfusKCMP
to pardon military whistleblower David McBride, who was sentenced to five years jail on Tuesday.
Today I was proud to join with all my Greens colleagues, the vast majority of the Cross Bench and millions of Australians to urge the Attorney General to obtain a full pardon for war crime whistleblower David McBride.
This is his last, best, chance for freedom.
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Fiona Nelson and ACIJ (not to mention
@ageinvestigates
and 90% of the media) remain astonishingly naive as to what's going on behind closed doors. Let me spell this out, again, in another vain attempt to dispel that naivete. The moment BRS is charged, the entire ADF heirarchy
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"... when you consider all we've done for East Timor ..."
What a smarmy little turd you are
@AlexanderDowner
. You should be the one on trial here. You're an utter disgrace to this country. Shame on you.
Australia is now a corrupt police state. This is not why I served in the Army for 28 years, defending the institutions of democracy, for them to be prostituted by
#auspol
to do the dirty work of their corporate cronies.
@4corners
@SteveCannane
@neighbour_s
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A message for
#auspol
Attorney-General
@MarkDreyfusKCMP
:
"If you have one shred of integrity you'll drop the unjust and ridiculous prosecution of David McBride, and you'll instead prosecute the actual criminals who now lead our defence force ..."
Delivered by
@BelgraveRaine
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This is the exact offence whistleblower David McBride is being prosecuted for. If you're a ministerial staffer you can do whatever you want with classified documents, with impunity. 'National security' is a political game to them. If you're a whistleblower, you're treated as a
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The Ben Roberts Smith defamation trial, high level command responsibility and the International Criminal Court - a thread🧵
Following 'national security' vetting by
#auspol
government officials over the weekend, Justice Besanko's written ruling on the BRS vs Nine defamation
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The Department of Veterans Affairs paid consultants
#PwC
$73 million to forestall a Royal Commission as part of a billion-dollar program intended to avoid reforming “not fit for purpose” legislation.
My latest for
@MichaelWestBiz
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Another day, another Australian veteran takes his own life in despair, another multi million $ monument is announced by the
#auspol
Prime Minister. You can't make this shit up.
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McBride’s sentencing comes four months after Dan Oakes, one of two ABC journalists who wrote the Afghan Files, was awarded an Order of Australia Medal, with the citation simply saying he was recognised “for service to journalism”.
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While the Australian media clown show obsesses over the domestic politics of Wong vs Dutton on Monday's Binskin stunt, UK media are going after the real story.
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Time for some brutal truths about the
#auspol
government's handling of the situation in
#Afghanistan
over the past couple of weeks.
cc
@JasonScanes
@FFsA_MEP
@KayDanes
@PaddyR19
@911CORLEBRA777
Half of these 3,000 places were "offered" to those Afghans who've been stranded in the
@DeptDefence
LEE certification system for up to 5 years then received this Andrew Hastie hospital pass ten days after Kabul was captured by the Taliban and they were deliberately left for dead.
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The irony of this tweet that hasn't dawned on Quentin Dempster is that in early September 2012 the same Governor-General (in his capacity as CDF) was directly informed of war crimes (at Sola 31/08/12) but did nothing. Had he acted properly then, there would've been no need for Dr
Whistleblowers are invariably shown the door, forced out/vilified. It’s part of hierarchical reputation “damage control”. If we’ve learnt anything their courage should be celebrated - cuppa tea with the Governor General, prominently listed in Australia Day honours.
@SCrompvoets
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Today was my kids' last day at school. They will remain at home until further notice during the
#COVID19
pandemic. I encourage every other parent to do the right thing, ignore
#auspol
@ScottMorrisonMP
and leave their kids at home. Please RT.
This despite every other enclosed space having to enforce a rule of only one person every four square metres. Muddled thinking? Muddled messaging? Much?
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The day
#auspol
Attorney-General
@MarkDreyfusKCMP
drops the ridiculous and unjust charges against whistleblowers David McBride and Richard Boyle is the day he stops being a stooge and starts being an actual Attorney-General.
The Albanese Government has delivered on our promise to the Australian people to strengthen protections for public sector whistleblowers.
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David McBride's legal team
@XDlawyers
will be appealing not only the sentence handed down by Mossop this week, but Mossop's earlier ruling as to McBride's duty (as both a lawyer and an Army officer) to uphold the public interest, vice blindly obeying orders.
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A message for
#auspol
Attorney-General
@MarkDreyfusKCMP
:
"If you have one shred of integrity you'll drop the unjust and ridiculous prosecution of David McBride, and you'll instead prosecute the actual criminals who now lead our defence force ..."
Delivered by
@BelgraveRaine
.
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🚨
#Breaking
🧵
"At least two of the former SAS officers named in the National Anti-Corruption Commission referral were awarded the DSC - one of Australia's highest military decorations - for command & leadership in Afghanistan"
#auspol
@MichaelWestBiz
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Short message from David McBride
@MurdochCadell
to his followers and supporters, after a long day in Court:
"I'm so grateful for all the support in Australia and around the world. Whatever happens next week I hold my head high and know I’ve done my bit to clean up the Department
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The Prime Minister of Pakistan is now making ultimatums on behalf of the Taliban, one if the most brutal terrorist organisations in modern history.
#SanctionPakistan
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"Veterans claim they have uncovered evidence of the systematic abuse of Australia's honours and awards system that has allowed senior commanders, including current
@CDF_Aust
Angus Campbell, to be wrongly awarded 'distinguished service' medals for decades."
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This is how badly broken things are in Canberra:
- Veterans who lobby Ministers to provide urgent medical care for injured veterans get ignored.
- Retired
#auspol
politicians & media barons lobby for a half billion $ mausoleum extension and get every cent.
#OzVeteransVote
A large and complex expansion of the
@AWMemorial
to be unveiled tomorrow by
@ScottMorrisonMP
. One senior government figure says “it’s hard to say no to lobbying from Brendan Nelson and Kerry Stokes”. Labor’s also backing the multi-million dollar project
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@LisaMillar
Another problem Lisa is that many of these coastal communities already have limited medical support. The owners should stay where they are, if they're in bigger cities closer to medical care. Offer the holiday homes to local health workers who need to isolate from their families.
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On Monday I'll be burning my
#Afghanistan
campaign medal & presenting the remains to my
#auspol
Federal MP Julian Simmons MP at his electorate office in Taringa, Brisbane.
👇This is why👇
Please join in Australia-wide & support calls to
#SaveOurAfghanTerps
.
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Eight years to evacuate 1,500 Afghans crucial to a 2-decades war effort?
I say to
#auspol
Defence Minister Peter Dutton:
The plan sitting on your desk since 27 May would evacuate the remainder, a similar number, in 10 days or less.
Get this job done. You've run out of excuses.
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Retired
@AustralianArmy
Major and war veteran Andy Cullen's message for General Angus Campbell
@CDF_Aust
in response to the latter's PR war against his own:
"How's recruitment in the ADF going at the moment? I'd be surprised if you could get *anyone* to sign up ..."
#auspol
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Stephen Smith (then MINDEF) and David Hurley (then CDF), among others, were directly informed about the killings at Sola in early September 2012. Their denials were broadcast in the national news media at the time. The "we didn't know" narrative has been garbage for a decade.
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Please sign and share this petition. Thanks!
"We ask Prime Minister Scott Morrison to immediately conduct a military evacuation of 1,000 of our locally employed Afghan staff and their families from Southern Afghanistan and Kabul."
#SaveOurAfghanTerps
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Senator Wong's confected outrage about Australian citizens facing closed trials on security charges overseas have no credibility while her own
#auspol
@AlboMP
government continues its draconian whistleblower prosecutions against McBride, Boyle et al here at home.
It is one year since Australian citizen Cheng Lei faced a closed trial in Beijing on national security charges.
She is yet to learn the outcome.
Our thoughts are with Ms Cheng and her loved ones. Australia will continue to advocate for her to be reunited with her children.
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Military whistleblower David McBride
@MurdochCadell
on the ICC referral and the Brereton Inquiry, via
@MichaelWestBiz
:
"So prescriptive are the defence inquiry regulations that an inquiry officer, like Brereton, is only permitted to answer questions set by those above him. In
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Former Australian soldiers are calling on
#auspol
Home Affairs Minister
@PeterDutton_MP
to urgently review a list of 80 interpreters who served with diggers in Afghanistan, now fearing Taliban retribution.
via
@theheraldsun
#OzVeteransVote
@jasonscanes
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My piece in today's
@canberratimes
:
"The farcical, in-country visa paper-shuffling exercise inflicted upon these [Afghans at risk of reprisals] by our diplomats & Defence chiefs must end today."
This is no time for bureaucracy: the Taliban are closing in
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I've just learned that three of the contracted employees on this flagship
@AusAID
stability/development program in Afghanistan have already been murdered by the Taliban, while our breathtakingly incompetent
#auspol
Foreign Minister
@MarisePayne
shuffled bits of paper in Canberra.
@Balgowallah
@denniallen
@dfat
@AusAID
@MarisePayne
Operation
#auspol
@dfat
@MarisePayne
"Throw a bunch of taxpayers money around, fly in with a news crew for an elaborate ribbon-cutting ceremony, then cut and run to leave your employees to die."
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"Scams don’t get much more blatant than a government appointing an international arms dealer to 'investigate' an apparent war crime involving his own weapon systems, against a humanitarian aid agency, in the name of 'full transparency'."
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This is SAS medic Dusty Miller's interview with Nick McKenzie
@Ageinvestigates
@60Mins
on the war crimes at Sarkhume, Afghanistan in March 2012, while under the command of LtCol Jon Hawkins, who is now CEO Omni Executive Pty Ltd. The Australian legacy media are so completely
🚨
#Breaking
🧵
"At least two of the former SAS officers named in the National Anti-Corruption Commission referral were awarded the DSC - one of Australia's highest military decorations - for command & leadership in Afghanistan"
#auspol
@MichaelWestBiz
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Widely misunderstood re the McBride case (due to lazy reporting) and misrepresented in court this week by the prosecution (based on Defence obfuscation) is the fact that David's motivation in blowing the whistle was to expose serious misconduct by senior ADF officers in their
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@GrayConnolly
@latikambourke
An interesting exercise would be to show this video to someone overseas and ask them to guess what the referendum is about.
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"Crossbenchers have called for the prime minister and attorney-general to pardon David McBride, who was sentenced earlier this week to nearly six years behind bars for leaking classified information."
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Chickens are well & truly coming home to roost now curly, old darling
#auspol
@AlexanderDowner
. Only the beginning you pathetic excuse of a human being.
'Infuriated' Downer tried to get US officials to mask Aus inaction on East Timor via
@GuardianAus
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Now we are seeing from Defence a slight variation in the "we didn't know" narrative designed to keep senior ADF leadership out of The Hague. The simple fact is that senior ADF leaders up to and including Hurley were made aware of killings at Sola almost two weeks before the
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#auspol
Attorney-General
@MarkDreyfusKCMP
's response to the
@Richard_D_Boyle
ATO whistleblower case is cowardly, shameful and pathetic. Drop this ridiculous prosecution and restore some decency to Australian governance.
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🚨
#Breaking
🚨
"We can now reveal the third officer named in the NACC complaint, another recipient of the DSC for distinguished command and leadership in Afghanistan, was one of Australia's top generals."
#auspol
#whatsthescam
@MichaelWestBiz
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#auspol
MINDEF
@RichardMarlesMP
conceals war crimes oversight report until
#DavidMcBride
5-yr prison sentence, obliterating PM
@AlboMP
's platitudes about improved govt transparency, accountability & whistleblower protections. My latest for
@MichaelWestBiz
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Now we see
#auspol
Deputy Opposition Leader
@sussanley
trumpet her ignorance of the distinction between administrative law and criminal law to the world. One more time Sussan:
1) The Brereton Inquiry was an *administrative inuiry* not a criminal investigation.
2) The Brereton
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The Brereton Report recommended no action be taken against anyone above the rank of Sergeant. A laughable finding. This, coupled with Richard Marles' obstinacy, is why we had to refer the ADF heirarchy to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor last year. If you want to know
@StuartMcCarthy_
@TroyStolz
@SquigglyRick
@jmwhistleblower
@Peter_Fox59
Yes.
I trusted they'd get people like Peter McLellan, or find another Tony Fitzgerald
But the Brereton Report did find against dozens of soldiers, war crimes and murders.....
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My submission to the
#auspol
Attorney-General on the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicides.
#VeteransRCNow
Proposed Terms of Reference for the Veterans' Royal Commission
#VeteransRCNow
@ScottMorrisonMP
5 Feb 2020: "It is our duty to to the same for them."
Full text of proposed TOR at
#auspol
@AuSenate
website here (pdf) ➡
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An Aussie veteran has burnt his Afghanistan campaign medal to protest the Commonwealth abandoning our Afghan allies.
@StuartMcCarthy_
delivered the ashes to his federal MP demanding the federal government evacuate civilian staff, like translators, who served with our troops.
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The manager of one of the
@AusAID
-funded projects mentioned in my
@canberratimes
piece this morning has confirmed 15 (not 9) of his staff were murdered by the Taliban. His visa application was rejected by
#auspol
@MarisePayne
last Monday so he's now appealing to
@ScottMorrisonMP
.
My piece in today's
@canberratimes
:
"The farcical, in-country visa paper-shuffling exercise inflicted upon these [Afghans at risk of reprisals] by our diplomats & Defence chiefs must end today."
This is no time for bureaucracy: the Taliban are closing in
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Nice happy snap of Paul Brereton, Kathryn Campbell and David Hurley at a Sydney University Regiment dinner in 2022, via
@Kangaroo_Court
.
How NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton hopped in bed with Robodebt Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes to cover-up Robodebt crimes
#auspol
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The public is now getting a dose of what we've had to deal with in the ADF under the "Inspector-General ADF", whose role in practice was/is to be the cover-up shop for the generals.
dared not hope for more but this is still so unbelievable
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“The withholding of crucial evidence from a jury on spurious ‘national security’ or ‘public interest immunity’ grounds entrenches the culture of high-level impunity that led to these circumstances in the first place, strengthening the case for ICC
intervention to address ADF
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OTD 6 June 1944. Operation Neptune. 156,000 British, Canadian, American and other allied troops land from the air and sea in Normandy, commencing the liberation of Europe from Nazi occupation.
We owe a debt of gratitude to the greatest generation that can never be repaid.
#DDay
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"In essence, a compliant state media outlet doing the
#auspol
government's dirty work under the pretext of independent journalism."
My piece on Monday's
@abcnews
#4Corners
episode, for
@MichaelWestBiz
Media.
cc
@MJSCarney
@GraceTobin
@DanielMOakes
OAM
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The reason for David McBride's disclosure of classified documents to the ABC, after exhausting all other avenues, was his concern about the legality of senior Australian Defence Force (ADF) officers' conduct regarding the war in Afghanistan, includibg the rules of engagement
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"I take this responsibility seriously. It matters. A society that takes the lives of its most dedicated and idealistic youth recklessly or cynically is a society doomed to fail."
David McBride, My duty was to stand and be counted via
@smh
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For people following the McBride/
#4Corners
controversy, be aware that McBride's lawyer Mark Davis
@XDlawyers
is also a five time Walkley Award winning investigative journalist and foreign correspondent, who reported for ABC 4 Corners, Foreign Correspondent and SBS Dateline among
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@MichaelWestBiz
@BAESystemsInc
You'd need an entire bookshelf to list Binskin's conflicts of interests on this one. No idea what Penny's chief of staff was thinking, plucking this name out of a hat.
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"Why so many generals ... ?"
There are now 238 star-ranked (Brigadier equivalent or higher) officers in the Australian Defence Force (ADF,
#YourADF
), making it one of the most top-heavy defence forces in the world. Four to five times more top-heavy than the U.S. or U.K. armed
Defence has not met recruitment targets for years.
But the top brass of Defence is doing very well, doubling over the past two decades.
It is a big bunch of mates at the top, overlooking a smaller and smaller group of people under them.
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"The spark for the incident leading to the charges was
@AlexanderDowner
's appointment to a lucrative consultancy w
@WoodsideEnergy
when he finished as
#auspol
@dfat
minister."
Prosecution of Witness K & his lawyer is a disgraceful act of revenge via
@smh
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"The
#auspol
Albanese government is now adrift in the whirlwind of Australia's abject failure to hold its top generals to account for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan."
My latest piece for
@MichaelWestBiz
.
#gaza
#idf
#wck
#infoops
#markbinskin
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"What kind of democracy do we have if the Attorney General can intervene in the courts jurisdiction and remove evidence and stick it in a safe that the Judge is not even allowed to see?"
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Countries that have jailed a whistleblower this year after their military leadership was referred to the International Criminal Court:
🇦🇺 Australia
(Chris Bowen was a member of Cabinet when Defence Minister Stephen Smith and Prime Minister Julia Gillard were directly and
Countries currently outside the Paris Climate Accord:
🇱🇾 Libya
🇾🇪 Yemen
🇮🇷 Iran.
Countries that Peter Dutton would take out of the Paris Accord:
🇦🇺 Australia.
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The public needs to understand that the senior Australian Defence Force hierarchy are effectively a taxpayer-funded mafia gang, whose only interest is in protecting their criminal mates from accountability. This week's events at the
@roycommDVSRC
are just one more small glimpse.
@StuartMcCarthy_
@roycommDVSRC
@CAF_Australia
Call me naive, but others like me assumed the ADF would be squeaky clean until what’s emerged in recent years, probs starting with the
@MurdochCadell
for me.
You wouldn’t let one’s kids near the joint - how are they going to recruit anyone with ethics & integrity at this rate?
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If there was any remaining doubt Linda Reynolds was the single most pathetic Minister for Defence in
#auspol
history, that last whiff of doubt just wafted up into the ozone layer.
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Every time you hear
#auspol
Attorney-General
@MarkDreyfusKCMP
waffle about whisleblower "reforms," remember this fact:
The actual executive policy of the
@AlboMP
government towards whistleblowers is to grind them into the ground then throw them in jail.
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The bumbling ineptitude of
#auspol
Prime Minister
@ScottMorrisonMP
never ceases to astound me.
In the midst of the global
#COVID19
pandemic, he and his "emergency cabinet" spent their time discussing the duration of visits to the hairdresser.
You cannot make this shit up.
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Albanese State TV (aka
@abcnews
#4Corners
) shitfuckery in the McBride case gets even deeper as more of the truth begins to emerge. I've known David since 2011. I first commented about his case on record to a reporter in June 2019. On a couple of other occasions I've provided his
More on the
#4corners
disgrace from David McBride's legal team. This was a calculated hit job by state media doing the government's dirty work on the false pretext of independent journalism.
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The biggest threat to Australia's national security at the moment is the appalling state of 'leadership' in the institutions responsible for our national security, including the man in this photo. If the
#auspol
government was serious about national security we'd see a clean out.
Protecting Australia from a complex tangle of threats | Brendan Nicholson |
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"I've never been so proud to be an Australian, I've never been so proud of my family and supporters."
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@boganintel
@SenatorWong
That classic tone of self-righteous indignation at being publicly challenged on anything, as if it was question time in the Senate. How dare they. 🙄
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"It would be unconscionable to leave these people to the mercy of the Taliban" said
#auspol
PM
@ScottMorrisonMP
on 10 June.
This is what that looks like now. Scenes in Kandahar, southern
#Afghanistan
. Taliban are going door to door looking for people who supported western govts.
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@Yesterdaysspiro
@markburrows74
If your expectation of the NACC was that it was a corruption-busting organisation, sorry to be the one to break the news that it was designed to fail. The actual purpose of the NACC was as an
#auspol
Albanese government "announcable" to create the perception this government was
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Hi
@GuardianAus
editor
@lenoretaylor
. I think you should do the right thing by your readers here and update this piece by Rodger Shanahan to reflect his obvious conflict of interest: namely that he was the inquiry officer for a 2009 incident involving the killing of three Afghans
I see that
@RodgerShanahan
has a piece explaining why the hierarchy should be spared. I also note that he didn't declare an obvious conflict of interest even when it's seeping out his trousers. Happy to do it for him. Inquiry officer for Jalbay killings👇
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