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Julian Assange - Absent Justice

 Since absentjustice.com launched in January 2015, my unwavering focus has been on reporting about and advocating for Julian Assange whenever possible. With Julian now free and back in Australia, and in a show of respect for his privacy, I have rebranded all seven previous webpages dealing with Julian Assange's issues. I have preserved the original Julian Assange Home and a page titled Julian Assange - Absent Justice while limiting the display to only the statutory declaration page and a brief text detailing how the Casualties of Telstra viewed Mr Assange.

“None of the main issues which humanity is facing will be resolved without access to information.” 

Christophe Deloire, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders.

The Cost of Whistleblowing 

Absent Justice - Break-Ins

The following statements are taken from Graham Schorer's Statutory Declaration regarding his break-in. (See Hacking – Julian Assange File No/3)

“In early February 1994, our premises were broken into and all computer cables including the power cables were severed, as well as all power connections to the main server which was in a specially constructed room. The perpetrators forced entry into the building in what the police described as a “ram raid”, where something similar to pneumatic tyre attached to the front of a vehicle was used to hit the front door with enough force to dislodge the steel frame attached to the brick work.

Part of the microfiche copier and viewer was stolen, as well as the PC on my desk which contained all of my COT information and correspondence between regulators, politicians, etc. Also stolen was a book that contained a catalogue of computer file numbers against their description.

The same day I spoke to Garry Dawson from Dawson Weed and Pest Control (another COT Case) on the phone, who told me that his business premises in Sunshine had been broken into just after midnight and burgled. The only thing stolen was the Dictaphone tape which held a recording he had made of a meeting between him and two Telstra executives on the previous day”. (see also Arbitrator File No/84)

Two months after the above break-in, my arbitration claim adviser Garry Ellicott (ex-National Crime Investigator and ex-Detective Sergeant of the Queensland Police) visited, and we spent five nights trying to decipher the pile of Telstra discovery documents. Then, I discovered further losses: exercise books in which I kept official booking records, several bank statements, and my bank pay-in books for 1992/93. I cannot account for these losses. They may also be missing in March, and I didn't notice their absence. Without these records, I was hard-pressed to produce complete and correct financial statements for my forensic accountant, Derek Ryan. I was reduced to scavenging information from wall calendars and other unofficial sources. When Garry returned to Queensland, I got him to take the work diaries for safekeeping.

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Absent Justice - Unresolved Privacy Issues

We ignored their advice, and it cost the COT Cases dearly 

If these three young men were Julian Assange, our COT story shows he and his friends provided a vital link for the first four COT arbitrations, but we did not know this during our arbitrations.

A statutory declaration was prepared by Graham Schorer (COT spokesperson) on 7 July 2011, which I provided to the Victorian Attorney-General, Hon. Robert Clark. This statutory declaration discusses three young computer hackers who phoned Graham to warn him during the 1994 COT arbitrations. The hackers discovered that Telstra and others associated with our arbitrations acted unlawfully towards the COT group. The principal hacker who contacted Graham Schorer has since been acknowledged as Julian Assange, who told Graham that Australia had a national network billing software problem, that Telstra was covering this up, and that we would not receive this information during our arbitrations. This is possibly the most amazing statement that the COT Cases has ever had with anyone outside of those in the Casualties of Telstra arbitrations. 

Three months after this discussion with John MacMahon, General Manager of Consumer Affairs AUSTEL (now ACMA), after having viewed my billing arbitration-related documentation, asked me to keep them abreast of any billing information I received under FOI and during my arbitration. Letters received months after the completion of my arbitration show that Telstra, AUSTEL, was writing to the arbitrator during my arbitration concerning the seriousness of my billing claims. Yet, I have received confirmation from AUSTEL/ACMA that Dr Gordon Hughes (the arbitrator) did not correspond to AUSTEL nor Telstra concerning this national network billing problem that destroyed many businesses throughout Australia. 

“After I signed the arbitration agreement on 21st April 1994 I received a phone call after business hours when I was working back late in the office. This call was to my unpublished direct number.

“The young man on the other end asked for me by name. When I had confirmed I was the named person, he stated that he and his two friends had gained internal access to Telstra’s records, internal emails, memos, faxes, etc. He stated that he did not like what they had uncovered. He suggested that I should talk to Frank Blount directly. He offered to give me his direct lines in the his [sic] Melbourne and Sydney offices …

“The caller tried to stress that it was Telstra’s conduct towards me and the other COT members that they were trying to bring to our attention.

“I queried whether he knew that Telstra had a Protective Services department, whose task was to maintain the security of the network. They laughed, and said that yes they did, as they were watching them (Telstra) looking for them (the hackers). …

“After this call, I spoke to Alan Smith about the matter. We agreed that while the offer was tempting we decided we should only obtain our arbitration documents through the designated process agreed to before we signed the agreement.” (See Hacking – Julian Assange File No/3)

In other words, these three young Australian citizens had been fully informed as early as April 1994 that the COT Cases were being violated even before our arbitrations had begun. Why did it take until January 1999 for a Senate Committee hearing to come up with the same findings? Had the arbitrator and administrator of our arbitrations acted in April 1994, I would not be writing this story in 2023/2024, seeking the justice we COT Cases were deprived of all those years ago.

Bad Bureaucrats
Bad Bureaucrats

Please note that the following text has been attached here because the previous text concerned Julian Assange and his brief association with the COT Cases. Now that he is free I do not intend to write any more about Julian because he has suffered enough and any this I might say may not be appropr

Discrimination
Discrimination
Corruption, misleading and deceptive conduct plagued the COT with the government's sanctions, which endorsed the arbitrations. Learn the names of those who participated in these horrendous crimes that equally corrupted arbitrators who covered up these atrocities 
Government Corruption - Gaslighting
Government Corruption - Gaslighting
Gaslighting, including misleading and deceiving the arbitrator by Telstra, plagued the government's endorsed arbitrations. Julian Assange uncovered these gaslighting techniques were about to be used against the COT cases before the arbitration began. No one listened, not even the COT Cases.
Hacked documents
Hacked documents
Corruption hinders the rule of law and democracy, results in human rights abuses and economic stagnation and permits organised crime to flourish. 
Open letter to Prime Minister (Recovered)
Open letter to Prime Minister (Recovered)
Corruption, misleading and deceptive conduct plagued the COT with the government's sanctions, which endorsed the arbitrations. Learn the names of those who participated in these horrendous crimes that equally corrupted arbitrators who covere
Read about our dealings with
Read about our dealings with
Corruption, misleading and deceptive conduct plagued the COT with the government's sanctions, which endorsed the arbitrations. Learn the names of those who participated in these horrendous crimes that equally corrupted arbitrators who covered up these atrocities 
WikiLeak exposing the truth
WikiLeak exposing the truth

Should a citizen be responsible for exposing crimes committed by public officials more than twenty-six years ago?&a

Chapter 7-Vietnam Vietcong
Chapter 7-Vietnam Vietcong
A criminal scheme devised by Telstra to minimize its losses to the detriment of those it had bastardized.  Corruption in government is destroying our democracy we need to put an end to this criminal conduct. 

Absent Justice - The Peoples Republic of China

It is essential to ascertain the rationale behind Telstra's arbitration unit overseeing my telephone conversations with the former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, between 1993 and 1994. These discussions pertained to my efforts in appraising the Australian government for redirecting our country's wheat exports to communist China, which were subsequently rerouted to North Vietnam when Australian, New Zealand, and United States troops were engaged in combat operations in that region. Clarification on this matter has never been provided.

In September of 1967, I brought to the attention of the Australian government that a portion of the wheat allocated to the People's Republic of China on humanitarian grounds was being redirected to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War Chapter 7- Vietnam - Vietcong

In January 2024, for the second or third time since 2021, I read through the paper FOOD AND TRADE IN LATE MAOIST CHINA, 1960-1978prepared by Tianxiao Zhu. Between Footnote 82 to 85 - T Zhu names not only the Hopepeak ship, which I was on between 28 June and 18 September 1967 (refer to British Seaman’s Record R744269 - Open Letter to PM File No 1 Alan Smiths Seaman), he tells the story the way it happened (I was there) not the way the government of the day told it to the people of Australia in 1967 through to the present. The Australian Minister of Trade and Industry, Sir John McEwen, referred to by Tianxiao Zhu as having stated the British seafarers of the Hopepeak ship were fearful of going back to China, was only an afterthought after being flown from Sydney back to England. When John McEwen knew full well, this was not an afterthought

During the 1960s, the Australian Liberal-Country Party Government engaged in misleading conduct regarding trade with Communist China despite being cognizant that Australian merchant seamen had vehemently refused to transport Australian wheat to China. The grounds for such an objection were their apprehension that the wheat would be redirected to North Vietnam during the North Vietnam War between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America. The underlying inquiry is to ascertain the government's rationale for deliberately deceiving the general public and jeopardising the country's troops whose lives were being lost in the conflict in North Vietnam.  Murdered for Mao: The killings China 'forgot'

Why didn't Australia's Trade Minister, John McEwen, correctly and honestly advise the people of Australia why the crew of the British ship Hopepeak had refused to take any more Australian wheat to China because they had witnessed its redeployment to North Vietnam during their first visit to China?  

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“Only I know from personal experience that your story is true, otherwise I would find it difficult to believe. I was amazed and impressed with the thorough, detailed work you have done in your efforts to find justice”

Sister Burke

“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

“Only I know from personal experience that your story is true, otherwise I would find it difficult to believe. I was amazed and impressed with the thorough, detailed work you have done in your efforts to find justice”

Sister Burke

“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

“…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

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