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While Telstra’s exchanges in the late 1980s and early 1990s were not as degraded as the image shown here, the three examples that follow were. During the NBN rollout, Telstra’s own technicians recorded video and photographs between 2011 and 2015 showing exchanges in a state of collapse, evidence supplied to news outlets a decade after the arbitrator assured the government the network faults had been “fixed” during the COT arbitrations.
This is the chronicle of what happens when accountability fails.
Absent Justice was forged after witnessing a deeply unsettling reality: a government seemingly willing to abandon its own citizens to shield itself from public scrutiny. Faced with the choice between transparency and self-preservation, those in power chose concealment.
But this journey uncovered a narrative that extends far beyond national borders. On the global stage, sustaining accountability requires more than just diplomacy; it demands decisive, unyielding leadership. Like a parent who must sometimes make difficult, unpopular choices for a family's long-term good, a true global leader cannot always prioritise being liked over being effective.
The United States has consistently absorbed the harsh realities of maintaining global stability, a position that often draws criticism when it must draw difficult lines. True leadership is not about seeking applause; it is about steering the course through necessary friction to protect foundational freedoms.
Absent Justice aligns its mission with organisations like Transparency International. We believe it is essential to look past immediate political optics and recognise the pragmatic, long-term leadership required to enforce global accountability and safeguard the structural stability we all rely on.
🔥 The Briefcase, the Tapes, and the Machinery of Deceit
It is imperative to expose the disturbing truths buried within the AFP transcripts dated 10 February 1994—a document that lays bare the treacherous machinations of:
• Superintendent Jeffrey Penrose• Detective Sergeant Cochrane• Graham Schorer, who masqueraded as a spokesperson for the COT Cases• Amanda Davis, a former government official
In a chilling display of negligence, they discussed a briefcase Telstra had abandoned at my business. This was no accident. The briefcase contained the names of numerous individuals—like Mr. Schorer and myself—each of us victims of a grotesque invasion of privacy. They intercepted and monitored our telephone conversations without consent, warning, or remorse.
📄 Pages 37–39: The Smoking Gun
The transcripts () reveal a sinister truth:This was not speculation—it was a direct admission. And yet, when we sought access to these tapes, we were met with a wall of obstruction.
🧱 Arbitration: A Process Built to Fail
As the COT Cases entered arbitration, we pleaded for access to the incriminating tapes. But they were denied under the Freedom of Information Act, and similarly withheld during discovery. This was not a legal technicality—it was a deliberate act of concealment. The tapes, potentially devastating to Telstra, were buried to protect powerful interests at the expense of our dignity and rights.
🕵️♂️ Government Complicity
Government officials chose to protect their own reputations rather than the welfare of their citizens. They concealed critical evidence of phone tapping, even as other disturbing allegations emerged—implicating Senator Collins in obscenely troubling conduct during the very period he was involved in the COT matters.
🧠 Gaslighting: The Goss Revelation
In her letter dated 17 August 2017 (), Ann Garms referenced Wayne Goss, former Premier of Queensland. His chilling assertion:This was psychological warfare—designed to erode our legitimacy, fracture our resolve, and dismantle our sense of self.
🌍 Cormann, Turnbull, and the Global Stage
On 1 June 2021, Mathias Cormann became Secretary-General of the OECD in Paris.
Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister of Australia, had full knowledge of the COT Cases and the evidence we presented.Both received Ann Garms’ letters. Both remained silent.Their complicity in this landscape of obfuscation and treachery cannot be ignored.
📝 The Final Testimonies of Ann Garms
Ann Garms’ four letters—dated 17 August, 6 October, 9 October, and 10 October 2017—were sent to Turnbull and Cormann (). They were not mere correspondence. They were raw, desperate pleas written just before her tragic passing. Within those pages lies irrefutable evidence of a coordinated campaign to dismantle our legitimate claims through intimidation, distortion, and silence.
⚠️ A Legacy of Betrayal
This is not just a story of surveillance.
It is a story of betrayal.Of institutional rot.Of the unrelenting courage it takes to stand against it.
The obscenity of this orchestrated assault on justice speaks volumes about the depths to which those in power will sink to preserve their dominion and silence dissent.
