Mr. Bates vs the Post Office,
From the 1990s Telco Scandals to Today:
ec.sen@aph.gov.au) and its members—including Chair Senator Hanson-Young—to insist that the inquiry not be rushed and that hearings be extended into affected communities.
PRESS RELEASE —ABSENTJUSTICE.COM
GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION: THREE SCANDALS, ONE PATTERN (1994 to 2026)
The corruption that devastated the lives of the Casualties of Telstra (COT) during the 1994–1999 arbitrations is now unfolding publicly through the 2026 British Post Office scandal and the 2026 Australian Post Office scandal. These two contemporary disasters, occurring on different continents, mirror the Telstra arbitration scandal with alarming precision. The same institutional failures, bureaucratic indifference, and destruction of ordinary citizens' lives are recurring, and all are meticulously documented on absentjustice.com.
Readers can readily discern the connections. By navigating to Mr Bates vs The Post Office on our homepage and then opening the Australian Citizens — Press Release (Tuesday 13 October 2026), the pattern becomes undeniable. The British scandal shows how a faulty computer system and a government unwilling to acknowledge its errors accused, ruined, and silenced innocent postmasters. The Australian scandal reveals identical behaviour: accusations based on flawed systems, government agencies refusing to investigate, and citizens left to contend with a system designed for self-preservation.
This precisely reflects our experience during the Telstra arbitrations. We were accused, dismissed, ignored, and forced to bear the consequences of a system that refused to admit its own failures. The Telstra arbitration corruption of 1994–1999 did not cease; it merely found new victims. The British Post Office victims from 2020 to 2026, the Australian Post Office victims of 2026, and the thousands of Australians silenced during the Telstra arbitrations are all casualties of the same systemic pathology.
This is the imperative behind absentjustice.com. This is why these pages were created. The evidence is here. The truth is here. The silence ends now.
After almost two decades, the British public and a growing number of British politicians have insisted that the British Post Office scandal is a matter of profound public interest and that the government, the civil service, and the Establishment must no longer conceal it. For England’s sake, this injustice demands a complete and transparent investigation. Click here to watch the Australian Channel 7 trailer for Mr Bates vs the Post Office, which aired in February 2024 and captures the scale of this national betrayal.
What makes the scandal so disturbing is that public servants inside the British Post Office knew the Fujitsu Horizon computer software caused the catastrophic accounting and billing errors. Yet they kept blaming innocent sub‑postmasters, many of whom were financially ruined, prosecuted, or imprisoned.
This pattern is painfully familiar to those of us who lived through the Australian COT arbitrations. Dr Gordon Hughes, the arbitrator appointed to oversee our cases, refused to give his own technical consultants the extra time they needed to diagnose ongoing faults in Telstra’s Ericsson billing software. The parallels between the British Post Office scandal and the Australian Telstra scandal are unmistakable. In both cases, faulty technical equipment was at the heart of the problem, as demonstrated in this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/
Click here to watch Mr Bates vs the Post Office
The symmetry between Telstra’s concealed 1800‑service faults and the British Post Office’s Horizon catastrophe is now impossible to ignore, especially as AI systems are granted the same blind authority once afforded to flawed human‑written code. Frank Blount’s 1999 admission that Telstra’s billing software was substandard, systemic, and long denied mirrors Fujitsu’s quiet knowledge of Horizon’s failures. In both nations, executives knew their systems were broken, yet ordinary citizens were forced to fight impossible legal battles against machines presented as infallible. AI only sharpens the warning: when technology lies, institutions follow, and the public pays.
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The chair of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board, Professor Chris Hodges, has written to Darren Jones, the current Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chief Secretary to the outgoing Prime Minister, urging action to deal with several outstanding problems related to the Post Office scandal. On behalf of the HCAB, Professor Hodges has set out a series of issues, the most pressing of which pertain to Postmasters and Post Office workers who still have criminal convictions. These people fall broadly into three groups: Capture Convictions Hodges notes the first two Capture appeals will not be heard before 2027. He believes...
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