Telstra's Falsified BCI Report 2
The Canadian government minister's office, in a letter dated 7 July 1995, responded to my concerns regarding the BCI report, stating:
"In view of the facts of this situation, as I understand them, I believe you are taking the most appropriate course of action in contacting BCI directly with respect to the alleged errors in their test report, should you feel that they could assist you in your case."
Furthermore, Exhibit 8, a letter from BCI to Telstra's Steve Black dated 11 August 1995, and Exhibit 36, a letter from BCI to Telstra's John Armstrong, are not on official BCI letterhead, unlike Exhibits 1 to 7, which are (see BCI Telstra's M.D.C Exhibits 1 to 46). Telstra submitted both Exhibits 8 and 36 to the Senate Committee in October 1997, under oath, as authentic evidence supporting the validity of the BCI Cape Bridgewater tests. However, evidence presented on absentjustice.com and in Telstra's Falsified BCI Report confirms that this is not the case.
In May 1995, after being released from the Portland Hospital in Victoria, Australia, I prepared a statutory declaration addressed to the Hon. Michael Lee MP, who was the Minister for Communications at the time of my arbitration following my first of two heart attacks. In this sworn statement, I described a recent phone call from Canadian telecommunications expert Paul Howell of DMR Inc. Group. He had been flown from Canada to review my evidence against Ball Canada International.
“…your persistence to bring about improvements to Telecom’s country services. I regret that it was at such a high personal cost.”
The Hon David Hawker MP
“…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
“I am writing in reference to your article in last Friday’s Herald-Sun (2nd April 1993) about phone difficulties experienced by businesses.
I wish to confirm that I have had problems trying to contact Cape Bridgewater Holiday Camp over the past 2 years.
I also experienced problems while trying to organise our family camp for September this year. On numerous occasions I have rung from both this business number 053 424 675 and also my home number and received no response – a dead line.
I rang around the end of February (1993) and twice was subjected to a piercing noise similar to a fax. I reported this incident to Telstra who got the same noise when testing.”
Cathy Lindsey
“I am writing in reference to your article in last Friday’s Herald-Sun (2nd April 1993) about phone difficulties experienced by businesses.
I wish to confirm that I have had problems trying to contact Cape Bridgewater Holiday Camp over the past 2 years.
I also experienced problems while trying to organise our family camp for September this year. On numerous occasions I have rung from both this business number 053 424 675 and also my home number and received no response – a dead line.
I rang around the end of February (1993) and twice was subjected to a piercing noise similar to a fax. I reported this incident to Telstra who got the same noise when testing.”
Cathy Lindsey
“…your persistence to bring about improvements to Telecom’s country services. I regret that it was at such a high personal cost.”
Hon David Hawker
“A number of people seem to be experiencing some or all of the problems which you have outlined to me. …
“I trust that your meeting tomorrow with Senators Alston and Boswell is a profitable one.”
Hon David Hawker MP