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Stuart McCarthy

25 days

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

Conflicted? Australia's war crimes adviser at The Hague gets a paid gig from A-G and Foreign...

Australia's Special Advisor to International Criminal Court was paid for war crimes advice “settled” by Attorney-General and Foreign Affairs.

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Stuart McCarthy

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3 years

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."

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#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

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6 years

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

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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

Kangaroo Court of Australia - Shane Dowling

@Kangaroo_Court

4 months

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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Stuart McCarthy

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2 years

13 Dec 2013 via @abc730 : "The Chief of the Australian Defence Force, General David Hurley, may have misled the Senate over the death of a handcuffed prisoner who was shot by an Australian Special Forces officer in Afghanistan." #auspol

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Stuart McCarthy

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2 years

#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'.

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@BelindaJones68

2 years

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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Stuart McCarthy

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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!

Stuart McCarthy

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2 years

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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Stuart McCarthy

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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.

Quentin Dempster

@QuentinDempster

6 months

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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Stuart McCarthy

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3 years

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 -

Stuart McCarthy

@StuartMcCarthy_

3 years

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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Stuart McCarthy

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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.

Geoffrey Watson: the NACC has failed its first test - ABC listen

Geoffrey Watson SC had high hopes for the National Anti-Corruption Commission, but when their first decision was not to proceed with an investigation into possible corruption in relation to the...

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Stuart McCarthy

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2 years

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. 🙄

Reynolds on Higgins: ‘It’s time to tell my story’

In her first interview since being caught up in what she calls “the firestorm” of the Brittany Higgins rape allegations, former Liberal minister Linda Reynolds speaks exclusively to The Weekend...

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Stuart McCarthy

@StuartMcCarthy_

11 months

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.

🇺🇦🐨🚁🌏🌱BrendanDwyer

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@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

Secrets, Spies and Trials

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

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This is the report the #auspol Albanese government buried until after they jailed David McBride.

Defence chiefs face fresh calls to be held 'accountable' for command failures over alleged war...

An independent panel found a lack of accountability from Australia's military top brass over alleged war crimes has generated "anger and bitter resentment" among troops and veterans.

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Stuart McCarthy

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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.

McBride’s guilty plea to have a chilling effect on whistleblowing and public interest journalism |...

Civil society groups have raised concerns about the democratic impact of the prosecution of David McBride, after the Afghan Files whistleblower pleaded guilty to three charges.

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Stuart McCarthy

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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.

David Shoebridge

@DavidShoebridge

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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.

Stuart McCarthy

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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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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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1 year

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 .

Paid to Not Reform: Veterans' Affairs chucks $73m at PwC to dodge Royal Commission - Michael West

Veterans Affairs dept paid consultants PwC $73 million to forestall a Royal Commission in billion-dollar program intended to avoid reform.

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6 years

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”.

Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride jailed for six years

Eight years after Australia began investigating war crimes in Afghanistan, a whistleblower is the first to be punished.

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Stuart McCarthy

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6 months

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.

Top IDF commander in aid strike wanted to block humanitarian supplies into Gaza

Investigation shows officer signed a letter to Israel’s War Cabinet demanding a ‘siege’ of Gaza City

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3 years

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

Stuart McCarthy

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3 years

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

Quentin Dempster

@QuentinDempster

1 year

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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5 years

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.

Hugh Riminton

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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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Stuart McCarthy

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@benmckelvey Details here

UN raises concerns over IDF tanks placed close to Irish post

New imagery obtained by RTÉ shows almost 20 pieces of Israeli military equipment have been located at a newly created firing position close to the UN post currently manned by Irish troops in southern...

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1 year

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.

Mark Dreyfus

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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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2 years

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

Off the Books: how the Army privatised SAS elite to dark ops outfit Omni - Michael West

Former SAS officers referred to national corruption watchdog over $230 million in government contracts to private security and intelligence “front company” Omni Executive.

michaelwest.com.au

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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

Pajhwok Afghan News

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Taliban will talk peace if Ghani goes: Khan

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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."

Defence commanders accused of wrongly accepting medals despite not serving 'in action'

Veterans claim they have uncovered evidence of the "systematic abuse" of Australia's honours and awards system that has allowed senior commanders, including current Defence Chief General Angus...

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6 years

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

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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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"Through forensic examination and whistleblower accounts, #4Corners reveals consulting giant #KPMG has faced accusations of repeatedly 'wasting' public money while contracted by the Department of Defence." #PwC #Deloitte #Accenture #auspol

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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

Sign the Petition

Urgent: Emergency evacuation of Afghan interpreters

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2 years

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.

Senator Penny Wong

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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

Plea to save Diggers’ interpreters from Taliban

MORE than 80 interpreters who served with Diggers in Afghanistan are still stranded there, fearing Taliban retribution, a group of veterans say.

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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

This is no time for bureaucracy: the Taliban are closing in

Why are we subjecting the Afghan civilians who helped us to our dysfunctional, bureaucratic visa application process?

www.canberratimes.com.au

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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'."

Israel and Australia's “transparent” inquiry into the World Central Kitchen killings in Gaza -...

Scams don't get more blatant than a government appointing an international arms dealer to “investigate” an apparent war crime involving his own weapon systems.

michaelwest.com.au

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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.

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@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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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

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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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Why did #auspol Prime Minister @AlboMP pick Paul Brereton to head the NACC? Because he did such a wonderful job of protecting former Defence Minister (now @AusHCUK ) Stephen Smith during his "Afghanistan Inquiry." Smith even boasted about this on ABC Radio National literally

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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."

Crossbenchers demand pardon for whistleblower McBride

Thirty crossbench and Greens parliamentarians are demanding the man sentenced to prison after helping expose allegations of war...

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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

'Infuriated' Alexander Downer tried to get US officials to mask Australian inaction on East Timor

Declassified documents show the then foreign affairs minister was angered by leaks showing Australia rejected US request for peacekeepers

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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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New: the ADF has been accused of threatening an SAS soldier, who said he saw #BRS murder Ali Jan, with criminal charges if he told his story outside the org. But the man ultimately did testify as a key witness in the defo case, from me via @SBSNews 👇

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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.

Calls to strengthen whistleblower protections

Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political...

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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

A third Australian General referred to the NACC. What's the scam? - Michael West

Another former SAS officer has been referred to the National Anti-Corruption Commission over the Omni affair. What's the scam?

michaelwest.com.au

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5 months

#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

Richard Marles concealed war crimes report, denying justice for David McBride - Michael West

Report on leadership failures in Afghan war was given to the Richard Males in November 2023, but not published until McBride was sentenced.

michaelwest.com.au

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1 year

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

Kit Tona

@tona_kit

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@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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3 years

My submission to the #auspol Attorney-General on the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicides. #VeteransRCNow

Stuart McCarthy

@StuartMcCarthy_

4 years

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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#SaveOurAfghanTerps

The Project

@theprojecttv

3 years

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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3 years

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 .

Stuart McCarthy

@StuartMcCarthy_

3 years

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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3 years

I'm proud to have served in Afghanistan. #AnzacDay

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4 months

Nice happy snap of Paul Brereton, Kathryn Campbell and David Hurley at a Sydney University Regiment dinner in 2022, via @Kangaroo_Court .

Kangaroo Court of Australia - Shane Dowling

@Kangaroo_Court

4 months

How NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton hopped in bed with Robodebt Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes to cover-up Robodebt crimes #auspol

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4 months

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.

Rick Morton

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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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6 years

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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7 months

"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

ABC News

@abcnews

7 months

Six years after whistleblower David McBride and ABC journalist Dan Oakes last spoke, they’re still grappling with the fallout from each other’s actions. What really happened with The Afghan Files: #4Corners

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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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5 months

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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7 months

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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6 months

@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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5 months

#Breaking : David McBride sentenced to 5 years and 8 months jail, 27 months non-parole. Welcome to #auspol Anthony Albanese's police state.

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8 months

"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

David Shoebridge

@DavidShoebridge

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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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5 years

"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

Prosecution of Witness K and his lawyer is a disgraceful act of revenge

The government has waited until now to press charges over Witness K's decision to blow the whistle on what Australia did in East Timor. The real offence is not breaching secrecy, but embarrassing...

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6 months

"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

Propaganda Blitzkrieg: Israel followed Australia's textbook on how to respond to war crimes...

The IDF information operation had the same precision, tempo and effectiveness as the initial attack of the 7 World Central Kitchen workers.

michaelwest.com.au

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6 months

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 "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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4 months

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

Chris Bowen

@Bowenchris

4 months

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.

elle la bombe

@dowhatonemustdo

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@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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@UNIFIL_ @TheLyonsDen

UN raises concerns over IDF tanks placed close to Irish post

New imagery obtained by RTÉ shows almost 20 pieces of Israeli military equipment have been located at a newly created firing position close to the UN post currently manned by Irish troops in southern...

www.rte.ie

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2 years

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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5 years

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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2 years

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.

Defence whistleblower David McBride to stand trial four years and eight months after being charged

Trial set down for 6 November for former military lawyer accused of leaking classified Australian defence information to journalists

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

@ThreshedThought Meh. Needs a proper ...

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7 months

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

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@StuartMcCarthy_

7 months

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 #Robodebt method of debt recovery used by the Department of Human Services originated in @DVAAus , but nobody in that toxic department has ever been held to account, despite the fact we are three years into a Royal Commission into veteran suicides. These vile methods continue

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1 year

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.

ASPI

@ASPI_org

1 year

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."

War crimes whistleblower begs leniency as jail sought

Prosecutors want David McBride to spend at least two years in jail after he pleaded guilty to disclosing...

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3 years

"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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4 months

@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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1 year

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

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I spoke with a GP in the Brisbane area today whose practice is currently owed $41,000 in outstanding @DVAAus invoices. Another is apparently owed $300,000. @DVASecretary Liz Cosson earns $720,000 p/a while health professionals caring for ill/injured veterans do it out of charity.

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