Telstra is run by 'thugs in suits' 

Telstra threats carried out. 

Page 180 ERC&A, from the official Australian Senate Hansard, dated November 29, 1994. These events stem from my cooperation with the AFP in their investigations into Telstra's interception of my telephone conversations. During the second Australian Federal Police Investigation File No/1 interview conducted at my place of business on 26th September 1994, as part of their investigation into the bugging issues, I was subjected to a series of 93 inquiries. This line of questioning pertained to the interception of my telecommunication services conversations and Telstra's alleged submission of inaccurate information to governmental authorities.

“Why did Telecom advise the Commonwealth Ombudsman that Telecom withheld FOI documents from Alan Smith because Alan Smith provided Telecom FOI documents to the Australian Federal Police during their investigation?”

After receiving a hollow response from Telstra, which the senator, the AFP and I all knew was utterly false, the senator states:

“…Why would Telecom withhold vital documents from the AFP? Also, why would Telecom penalise COT members for providing documents to the AFP which substantiate that Telecom had conducted unauthorised interceptions of COT members’ communications and subsequently dealt in the intercepted information by providing that information to Telecom’s external legal advisers and others?” Senate Evidence File No 31)

Even after I provided the arbitrator with a copy of Senator Ron Boswell's Senate Hansard statement and wrote to the arbitrator and Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman to demand answers from Telstra about why these threats were still being made six months into my arbitration, the arbitrator still recorded in his award (official findings) that Telstra had conducted itself appropriately during the arbitration.

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