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A Man with a Conscience:

My story on absentjustice.com demonstrates how the official arbitrator and equally official administrator of several government-endorsed arbitrations knowingly lied to and deliberately misled a group of Australian small-business owners who were legitimate claimants against the then-government-owned Australian telecommunications carrier, Telstra. We claimants all believed we were signing an official agreement that had been drafted ultimately independently of Telstra when, in fact, Telstra's lawyers had drafted it to the detriment of the claimants! The rules in the agreement did not allow sufficient time in the agreement for the production of documents, obtaining further particulars and the preparation of the technical reports. Something the arbitrator himself agreed had made the deal not credible, but he still used it in my arbitration, allowing for the other claimants that followed more than thirteen months longer than he allowed me. I've attached the arbitrator's letter dated 12 May 1995 to the administrator. Factoring that the arbitrator and administrator have since both received the Order of Australia is thought-provoking. 

 

Absent Justice - Julian Assagne

 

Telstra and their lawyers had legally abused all four COT Cases over seven years or more when the hackers approached Mr Schorer. I think a most reasonably minded person would conclude that Warwick Smith, as administrator to our arbitration, should have, at least if his investigations into what the hackers had said were baseless, his notes on this should have been made official. There were no notes on this fact or consideration given to the four COT Cases when John Rundell, the TIO appointed Arbitration Project Manager, wrote to Warwick Smith on 18 April 1995 (twelve months after the hackers had contacted Mr Schorer) telling Warwick Smith there were 'forces at work' Prologue Evidence File No 22-A' that had derailed the arbitration process. 

What was also not made known to us COT Cases before we signed our 23 Settlement assessment processes, which were turned into an arbitration process by Warwick Smith and Telstra, is that Warwick Smith was providing in-house government parliament house part room confidential information to Telstra's hierarchy TIO Evidence File No 3-A which may have been enough information for Telstra to turn our settlement process into an arbitration agreement their lawyers had drafted. Chapter 1- Prior to Arbitration 

This arbitration agreement (rules) was used during the COT arbitrations. So when we COT Cases approached Warwick Smith about what the hackers had told us about being forced into an arbitration process, aware we would not be getting the documents we would be requesting or words to this effect, the hackers had been spot on. 

There had to have been a reason why Warwick Smith (administrator of our arbitrations) would not supply us with COT Case information concerning these hackers after they had been caught. Graham’s statutory declaration (Hacking – Julian Assange File No/3includes the following statements:

“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)

Documents on this website contain a letter from Telstra's internal corporate solicitor to an AFP detective superintendent, misinforming the AFP concerning the fax-testing process. The rest of the file shows Telstra did experience significant problems when testing my facsimile machine in conjunction with Graham Schorer's office fax machine. This was during the period that Senator Bob Collins was involved in raping children in parliament house Canberra and was under investigation for these acts when he committed suicide. 

If the hackers were Julian Assange, then he and his friends were right on target: we COT Cases were under electronic surveillance as Australian Federal Police Investigation File No/1 transcripts from their interview surrounding the interception of my telephone conversations.  

Absent Justice - Don+39t shoot the messenger

On the covering page of a joint 10-page letter dated 11 July 2011 to the Hon Robert McClelland, federal attorney-general and the Hon Robert Clark, Victorian attorney-general, I note:

“In 1994 three young computer hackers telephoned Graham Schorer, the official Spokesperson for the Casualties of Telstra (COT) in relation to their Telstra arbitrations.

  • Was Jullian Assange one of these hackers?
  • The hackers believed they had found evidence that Telstra was acting illegally. 
  • In other words, we were fools not to have accepted this arbitration file when it was offered to us by the hackers who conveyed to Graham Schorer a sense of the enormity of the deception and misconduct undertaken by Telstra against the COT Cases.” (AS-CAV Exhibit 790 to 818 Exhibit 817)

I also wrote to Hon. Robert Clark on 20 June 2012 to remind him that his office was already in receipt of the 7 July 2011 statutory declaration from Graham Schorer. I also approached other government authorities and provided the Scandrett & Associates fax interception report (see Open Letter File No/12 and File No/13), which leaves no doubt that the hackers were correct concerning this electronic surveillance.

One of the two technical consultants attesting to the validity of this Scandrett & Associates fax interception report emailed me on 17 December 2014, stating:

“I still stand by my statutory declaration that I was able to identify that the incoming faxes provided to me for review had at some stage been received by a secondary fax machine and then retransmitted, this was done by identifying the dual time stamps on the faxes provided.” (Front Page Part One File No/14)

If the question is: "Should a citizen be responsible for exposing crimes committed by public officials more than twenty-six years ago?" then surely the answer must be "Yes", mainly if those crimes affected the lives of other Australian citizens.

 
 
 
 
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Absent Justice - My Story - Senator Ron Boswell

Threats made and carried out.

Page 180 ERC&A, from the official Australian Senate Hansard, dated November 29 1994, reports Senator Ron Boswell asking Telstra's legal directorate why were my FOI documents being withheld from me during my arbitration:

“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)

As I have reiterated throughout this website, the threats against me during the arbitration proceedings came to fruition, and the withholding of pertinent documents is deeply concerning. Regrettably, neither the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman nor the government has investigated the detrimental impact of this malpractice on my overall submission to the arbitrator. Despite assisting the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in their investigation into the illicit interception of phone conversations and arbitration-related faxes, they never came to my aid.

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“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

“…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

“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

“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.”

The Hon David Hawker MP

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