Menu
My Bag

Your bag is currently empty.

Menu

Who We Are

My name is Alan Smith. This is the story of my battle with a telecommunications giant and the Australian Government. This battle has twisted and turned, since 1992 through elected governments, government departments, regulatory bodies, the judiciary, and the Australian telecommunications giant Telstra, or Telecom, as it was known when this story started. 

Absent Justice was set up to publish an accurate account of what happened during the various Australian Government-endorsed arbitrations with Telstra. We are a group of Australians who call themselves the Casualties of Telstra (CoT). 

This is a true story about a group of ordinary small-business people fighting one of the largest companies in the country. The story of how for years Telstra refused to address the many phone problems that were affecting the capacity of the COT Four to run their businesses, telling them ‘No fault found,’ when documents on this website show they were found Refer to Tampering With Evidence

Learn More ⟶

Who We Are
Absent Justice Ebook

Read Alan’s book
A true story

  1. Spying during the COT arbitration by public servants were tolerated by the Australian government during the COT arbitrations as well as during their own business dealin, including the use of electronic surveillance equipment, to gain an illegal advantage over litigants during court proceedings and private negotiations. See Chapter 4 Government spying/Scandrett & Associates facsimile interception report, Open Letter File No/12 and File No/13.
  2. Unaddressed threats carried out by the Telstra Corporation against the COT Cases during their arbitrations. See Senate Evidence File No 31
  3. Withholding important discovery documents in an arbitration procedure: Absent Justice Part 2 - Chapter 14 - Was it Legal or Illegal?
  4. Tampering with evidence in the arbitration: Tampering With Evidence.
  5. Relying on defence documents that are known to be flawed: Telstra’s Falsified BCI Report); 
  6. AUSTEL (for the government) concealed vital evidence from the arbitration process that would have won my case:  AUSTEL’s Adverse Findings at points to 212.
  7. The arbitrator ordered the removal of vital evidence from two reports: Refer to Chapter 1 - The collusion continues and Chapter 2 - Inaccurate and Incomplete
  8. Organized crime via the Telstra network, i.e. telephone calls and faxed documents intended for one business being redirected to another with the proceeds of that directed information earning the criminals involved millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains Refer to Chapter 4 Government spying and Australian Federal Police Investigations-1Fraud allegations against Telstra during the COT arbitrations were registered with the Major Fraud Group Victoria Police by Barrister Sue Owens, only to be squashed under pressure by the Australian government (see following transcripts Major Fraud Group Transcript (2)) 

Read About Our Dealings With

Absent Justice Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
Absent Justice Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

Learn about horrendous crimes and unscrupulous criminals, corrupt politicians and the lawyers who control the legal profession in Australia. Shameful, foul, atrocious, monstrous, hideous and treacherous are just a few words that describe these lawbreakers.

Senate Evidence
Senate Evidence

The criminal delinquency of those involved in the COT Cases corrupted arbitrations continued to practive their evil and crooked style of justice on other citizens who, like the Casualties of Telstra have had their lives ruined.

An Injustice to the remaining 16 Australian citizens
An Injustice to the remaining 16 Australian citizens

This type of skulduggery is treachery, a Judas kiss with dirty dealing and betrayal. This is dirty pool and crookedness and dishonest. This conduct fester’s corruption. It is as bad, if not worse than double-dealing and cheating those who trust the ground you walk on. Sheer Evil.<

AFP Investigation -2
AFP Investigation -2
Read about the corruption within the government bureaucracy that is plaguing COT arbitrations. Learn who committed these horrendous crimes that equally corrupted lawyers and crooked arbitrators who covered up these crimes.
Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman
Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman

Corruption in government, including non-government self-regulators, undermines the credibility of that government. It erodes the trust of its citizens. 

C A V Part 1, 2 and 3
C A V Part 1, 2 and 3
Sadly, corruption and collusive practices are rife in the Australian ‘Establishment’ and this terrible situation prevents us from telling our story in a brief way. We had no alternative but to produce it the way we have here.

Learn More ⟶

Quote Icon

“…the very large number of persons that had been forced into an arbitration process and have been obliged to settle as a result of the sheer weight that Telstra has brought to bear on them as a consequence where they have faced financial ruin if they did not settle…”

Senator Carr

My Story - Absent Justice

My Story

My Name is Alan Smith.

My Casualties of Telstra story started in 1987 when I decided my life at sea, where I had spent the previous 28 years, was over. I needed a new land-based occupation to see me through my retirement years and beyond.

Imagine my delight when I saw the Cape Bridgewater Holiday Camp advertised for sale in The Age newspaper. It was located in rural Victoria, near the small maritime port of Portland. Everything seemed perfect. our big mistake when we fell in love with the place was failing to look at the telephone system. In those days there was no mobile coverage and business was not done via the internet or by email. Within a week of taking over the business, I knew I had a problem. I was receiving letters instead of telephone calls wanting to book my venue. I will never know how many people failed to write.

Yes, that’s right. I had a business to run and a phone service that was, at best, unreliable and, at worst, just not there at all. Of course, we lost business as a result.

Other independent business people similarly affected by poor telecommunications have joined me on my journey. We are known as the Casualties of Telstra or the COT cases. All we wanted was for the Government-owned telecommunications carrier Telstra to admit problems and fix them. We were offered an arbitration process as an alternative. We accepted this compromise after the Government promised us all of the documents we needed to make our case would be available during that process.

Despite the first round of promises made by Telstra and the government on 23 November 1993, and up to April 1994, when the arbitrations commenced those documents have still not been provided to sixteen of the twenty-one COT Cases (see An Injustice to the remaining 16 Australian citizens  If you continue reading this story, you will see which major legal firm set out before the arbitration commenced a strategy (Refer to Prologue Evidence File 1-A to 1-C) naming me and my business along with three other companies, how Telstra could conceal (hide) relevant technical documents (as legal documents) branding then Legal Professional Privilege (LPP) when they were not privileged at all.

Read More ⟶

“All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”

– Edmund Burke