The following is a powerful and thought-provoking message Senate Evidence File No 12 contains a chilling account of the events that transpired when Alan Smith, the author of this website, was threatened twice by the Chair of the Australian Senate. These threats were made on 16 August 2001 and 6 December 2004, which warned me that I would be charged with contempt of the Senate if he disclosed the 6 and 9 July 1998 In-Camera Hansard. It is unbelievable that the Senate would go to great lengths to hide crucial information that could have won sixteen arbitration and mediation appeals in 1998.
This injustice clearly violates democracy and freedom of speech. Despite being wholly owned by the government, Telstra's gross misconduct during several arbitrations and mediation procedures was ignored. The findings of misconduct should have been a matter of public interest, yet they were kept under parliamentary privilege. It is unacceptable that this information continues to harm the victims of this injustice.
I have created the website absentjustice.com to balance the scales of justice. It's time to demand that the government take action and correct this wrong. An Injustice to the remaining 16 Australian citizens
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This website boldly exposes the rampant corruption that took place within the government bureaucracy during the COT arbitrations, leaving no stone unturned. It also fearlessly uncovers the identities of the culprits responsible for these despicable crimes and their current positions within the government. The arbitration and mediation processes endorsed by the Australian government were marred by misconduct in public office, revealing a deeply ingrained culture of systemic corruption. Despite this, the government chose to turn a blind eye, shielding its government-funded agencies, who were complicit in committing numerous crimes against the Casualties of Telstra.
Until the late 1990s, the Australian government wholly owned Australia’s telephone network and the communications carrier, Telecom (today privatised and called Telstra). Telecom held the monopoly on communications and let the network deteriorate into disrepair. When four small business owners had severe communication problems, they went into arbitration with Telstra. The arbitrations were a sham: the appointed arbitrator not only allowed Telstra to minimise the casualties of Telstra (COT) members’ claims and losses but also bowed down to Telstra and let the carrier run the arbitrations. Telstra committed serious crimes during the arbitrations, yet the Australian government and the Australian Federal Police have not held Telstra, or the other entities involved in this deceit, accountable.
Government Corruption. Corruption in the public service, where misleading and deceptive conduct has spuriously over more than two decades perverted the course of justice.
The criminal delinquency of those involved in the COT Cases corrupted arbitrations continued to practive their evil and crooked style of justice on other citizens who, like the Casualties of Telstra have had their lives ruined.
This type of skulduggery is treachery, a Judas kiss with dirty dealing and betrayal. This is dirty pool and crookedness and dishonest. This conduct fester’s corruption. It is as bad, if not worse than double-dealing and cheating those who trust the ground you walk on. Sheer Evil.<
Corruption in government, including non-government self-regulators, undermines the credibility of that government. It erodes the trust of its citizens.
“…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
During my arbitration case against the Telstra Corporation, I discovered a freedom of information release that proved Telstra had recorded and redacted my phone conversations with former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Additionally, I reported a China/North Vietnam wheat deal to the Australian Federal Police on two separate occasions - September 18th, 1967 and September 26th, 1994. Despite my efforts, the authorities did not show any interest in the matter. The Australian Federal Police Investigation File No/1 mentions the interception of my telephone conversations with Mr Fraser.
During those phone conversations, I expressed my concerns that Australia was providing wheat to China in 1967 despite being aware that China was redirecting it to North Vietnam. I'm curious to know how the interception of my telephone conversations during the arbitration proceedings in 1993 and 1994 with Malcolm Fraser is related to my exposure to the government on 18 September 1967 when Australia was trading with the enemy.
What intrigues me is the reason behind documenting a seemingly harmless conversation about Australia's wheat selling to China while being aware that China was supplying wheat to North Vietnam during a conflict with Australia, New Zealand and the United States. I am confident there must be a significant motive behind this, and I am determined to uncover it.
It's difficult to fathom the extent of harm inflicted on the young Australian, New Zealand, and United States service members by North Vietnam soldiers who were fueled by the wheat supplied to them by their communist Chinese supporters. Sadly, many of these brave service people lost their lives or were left with permanent injuries.
1. 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
2. Who else in the Australian government was aware that Australian wheat intended for a starving communist China was being redirected to North Vietnam to feed the North Vietnamese soldiers before those soldiers marched into the jungles of North Vietnam to kill and maim Australian, New Zealand, and United States of America troops? Refer to Footnote 82 to 85 FOOD AND TRADE IN LATE MAOIST CHINA,1960-1978, prepared by Tianxiao Zhu, who even reports the name of our ship, the Hopepeak and how the seaman feared for our lives if we were forced to return to China with another cargo of Australian wheat. Australian wheat was being redeployed to North Vietnam during the period when Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America fought the Vietnam Cong in the jungles of North Vietnam.
3. During the 1960s, the Australian Liberal-Country Party Government engaged in misleading conduct regarding trade with Communist China despite being cognizant of the fact 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'