The Cost of Whistleblowing 

If it was Julian Assange, how did he know during a government-endorsed arbitration where the Australian Federal Police were present for the first fifteen months of those arbitrations that the COT Cases were under electronic surveillance?    

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We ignored the hackers advice and it cost the COT Cases dearly 

If these hackers were Julian Assange, then our COT story shows he and his freinds provided a very important link for the first four COT arbitrations, but we did not know this during our arbitrations.

A statutory declaration prepared by Graham Schorer (COT spokesperson) on 7 July 2011 was provided to the Victorian Attorney-General the Hon Robert Clark. This statutory declaration discusses three young computer hackers who phoned Graham to warn him during the 1994 COT arbitrations. The hackers had discovered Telstra and others associated with our arbitrations were acting unlawfully towards the COT group. Graham’s statutory declaration includes 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 This call was to my unpublished direct number.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)

The following two links, Australian Federal Police Investigations and  Chapter 4 - Government spying shows that the COT Cases arbitration-related faxes were being electronically intercepted by a secondary fax machine connected to Telstra's telephone network.

It is also important we include in our Hacking-Julian Assange page @ Chapter 3 - Hacked documents what Karina Barrymore, journalist at the Melbourne Herald Sun, wrote on 3 August 2016 concerning what she thought about whistleblowers. Had the government truly listened to the COT whistleblowers in 1995 and 1996 regarding their telephone faults, which were supposed to have been fixed during their government-endorsed Telstra arbitrations, perhaps the long-running NBN blowout would have not gone billions of dollars over budget. Sadly, Karina Barrymore’s statement below is right on target:

“Dobber, Snitch, Rat, Squealer. It’s insightful how the words used to describe a whistleblower are so negative. 

“Yet being honest and speaking the truth is supposed to be cornerstone of our society. A cornerstone of our families, communities, corporate world and government.

“So why aren’t we applauding and raising up these people, instead of shutting them down and ruining their lives.

“These ‘truth tellers’ are shunned and rejected. Telling the truth often means they lose their jobs, their reputations are deliberately trashed, their finances suffer, their mental health fails and all these factors flow on to damage their family, social and professional relationships.

“The whistleblowers have done their job, spoken the truth, suffered the consequences, lived the hardship and financial burden. But our corporate leaders, our regulators, our governments have not done their job.”

Karina Barrymore’s statement is right on target because the Australian Establishment, which includes ex-government ministers as well ex-senior members of two government regulators, are aware Dr Gordon Hughes, arbitrator to my arbitration, and Warwick Smith, administrator to the same process acted in concert with the defendants and used their drafted arbitration agreement instead of the agreed totally independently drafted arbitration agreement. NONE of the corporate leaders, neither our regulators nor our government ministers have had the courage to investigate this matter. Set out below is only one of many examples where Dr Gordon Hughes and Warwick Smith, acted in a manner not befitting an arbitrator and/or an administrator. We are telling this part of our COT story first, in the hope that the reader will be compelled to go to the next part of our story.

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

I have highlighted what I consider to be fraud of the highest level. Fraud by a government regulator so as to minimize the government is hinging on criminal conduct which Julian Assange uncovered. Corruption and Fraud was also uncovered by Julian Assange.

COT Case Anne Garms, just before her death, wrote jointly on 17 August 2017 to The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, Prime Minister of Australia and Senator the Hon  Mathias Cormann under the heading: The Claim Against the Commonwealth for Negligent/Unreasonable Conduct, stating:

"The purpose of this letter arises out of the injustices experienced by my family and the recent findings by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse and the cover-up of the paedophile activities by the former Minister for Communications Senator Bob Collins." 

Mathias Cormann was appointed as the Secretary-General of the OECD on 1 June 2021 for a five-year term.

I have raised here the 17 August 2017 letter from Anne Garms' as a testament that it was possible the reason we COT Cases were denied our promised arbitration documents was that to have provided all of the relevant information held by the office of Senator Bob Collins, who was instrumental in allowing our arbitration process to commence is that such a release of documents from his office may well have undercovered his raping of aboriginal Childen in his Canberra parliament house office (see See File Ann Garms 104 Document)

It is important to link the Major Fraud Group Transcript (1) and Major Fraud Group Transcript (2) because Fraud Group Transcript (1) shows Senator Ron Boswell, Graham Schorer (COT spokesperson), Bruce AkehurstTelstra), Mr Anthony Honner (another COT case) and Barry O’Sullivan (negotiator) discussing why the government did not allow my arbitration matters to be viewed by the Senate investigation into the five litmus COT test cases. To have investigated my matters would have impeded the privatisation of Telstra. The Major Fraud Group Transcript (2) shows Barrister Sue Owens explaining why the Major Fraud Group Barrister Neil Jepson seconded me into assisting the fraud group’s own investigations into claims the five litmus test cases registered concerning Telstra committing fraud. Page 11 of transcript (2) shows Sue Owens stating I am “extremely intelligent” and that police also thought the same concerning my own reporting in Open Letter File No/41/Part-One and File No/41 Part-Two).

https://youtu.be/ISdNMcM03DI