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Dave J May 16, 2024

#Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade accused of attempted censorship of official #history of #military operations in #TimorLeste, including references to bugging the Timorese cabinet room during #oil negotiations in 2004: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/16/dfat-accused-of-attempting-to-censor-official-history-of-military-operations-in-timor-leste?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #EastTimor #TimTim #auspol #WitnessK #BernardCollaery

Dfat accused of attempting to censor official history of military operations in Timor-Leste

Exclusive: Bureaucratic process of ‘clearing’ book has dragged on for almost three years with historians arguing obstruction ‘amounts to censorship’

The Guardian

spmatich vk3spm

Jan 11, 2024

So #Labor wont break an election promise for #Stage3TaxCuts but has no problem dropping the election promise for an inquiry into prosecution of #WitnessK and #BernardCollaery #CoolAndNormal
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/labor-shelves-election-promise-for-inquiry-into-prosecution-of-witness-k-and-bernard-collaery

Labor shelves election promise for inquiry into prosecution of Witness K and Bernard Collaery

Plans for investigation into Timor bugging scandal have failed to transpire more than 18 months after government was elected

The Guardian

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skua Dec 3, 2023

@Herman_Lentil
Hard edged article by #BrianToohey.

#BernardCollaery #WitnessK #AlexanderDowner #ASIS

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Ferdi Magellan Oct 1, 2023

@weezmgk @danilic excellent. The remaking of COAG as National Cabinet has been pissing me off for years now. We used to know the agenda, minutes were recorded and we learned of the decisions. Now nothing. Zip. Everything is secret.

This is not how representative democracy is meant to work and it is how corruption flourishes.

Enough of the secrecy .

#auspol #secrecy #COAG #NationalCabinet #Witnessk

amyfallon Jan 18, 2023

Could cry about the way #Australia has treated #BernardCollaery , #WitnessK They’re the best of us, & look what happened. (Also treatment of #JulianAssange )

https://citynews.com.au/2023/why-its-time-to-pardon-and-honour-witness-k

Why it's time to pardon and honour Witness K | Canberra CityNews

“The Albanese government can now complete the circle of light by having the governor-general pardon Witness K as an exercise of the ‘prerogative of mercy’," says legal columnist HUGH SELBY.

Canberra CityNews