“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou
Absentjustice is a work in progress, last edited June 2023.
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On 23 May 2021, Peta Credlin, Barrister, Solicitor and onetime Chief of Staff to The Hon Tony Abbott (Prime Minister of Australia), now a high profile Australian media guru and TV host, wrote a fascinating article, in the Herald Sun newspaper, under the heading: "Beware The Pen Pusher Power - Bureaucrats need to take orders and not take charge”, i.e;
“Now that the Prime Minister is considering a wider public service reshuffle in the wake of the foreign affairs department's head, Finances Adamson, becoming the next governor of South Australia, it's time to scrutinise the faceless bureaucrats who are often more powerful in practice than the elected politicians.
Outside of the Canberra bubble, almost no one knows their names. But take it from me, these people matter.
When ministers turn over with bewildering rapidity, or are not ‘take charge’ types, department secretaries, and the deputy secretaries below them, can easily become the de facto government of our country.
Since the start of 2013, across Labor and now Liberal governments, we’ve had five prime ministers, five treasurers, five attorneys-general, seven defence ministers, six education ministers, four health ministers and six trade Ministers.”
I found this article most relevant to the matters raised by the Casualties Of Telstra (COT for short) and their dealings with 'the faceless bureaucrats who are often more powerful in practice than the elected politicians.' Peta Credlin has hit the nail squarely on the head in this article. I can not only relate to the information she writes about, but I can also link it to the many bureaucrats and politicians I have met since this debacle first began, i.e., before, during and after my government-endorsed arbitration, who have continued to ignore the evidence now attached to this website.
I, therefore, decided to use Peta Credlin's article to open this Home page
Clicking with your mouse/cursor on the following image of me will take you to a 4-minute YouTube that discusses where I am today with this story.
Unfortunately, I knew nothing of what was ahead of me when I bought my phone-dependent business at Cape Bridgewater, in rural Australia. It wasn’t until much later that I discovered that the business was connected to an antiquated phone exchange which had been installed more than 30 years before and which was designed specifically for what the Australian telecommunications carrier (Telstra) designated as ‘low-call-rate areas’. This ancient telephone exchange was certainly never intended to handle the amount of calls that were already being made by residents and holidaymakers in late 1987 when I arrived to take over the business, nor was it ever intended to handle the increased number of calls that occurred in this holiday village at holiday time.
When I started to operate my business in February 1988, doing business via the Internet and email was not an option. The way of doing business was only beginning to come into its own well past the conclusion period of my arbitration in 1995. Had we COT Cases been operating our companies when emails and online advice were so readily available, the phone and faxing problems we suffered would not have affected our business losses as they did.
As our COT story shows, during our COT government-endorsed arbitrations. Instead of Telstra assisting the arbitrator in locating and fixing our ongoing telephone problems, which was the reason the government set up the process to achieve, Telstra lied, tampered with the evidence being used by the COT Cases, as well as destroying any evidence that proved they had been negligent. The heinous and scandalous activities by Telstra and their government minders had no boundaries.
It is also important we include here what Karina Barrymore, journalist at the Melbourne Herald Sun, wrote on 3 August 2016 what she thought about whistleblowers.
“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.”
Julian Assange exposed the crimes committed against the COT Cases three years before the Senate uncovered the truth surrounding these same crimes. Why did the government take three years to expose these same heinous and scandalous activities by Telstra and their government minders?
Read about our dealings with:
- Terrorist activities in ISIS-held Iraq by Telstra’s major telecommunications supplier Ericsson who, instead of admitting to the COT arbitrator that their AXE telephone exchange equipment had many deficiencies, purchased the arbitration technical expert so that the evidence collected became the property of Ericsson Refer to Chapter 5 - US Department of Justice vs Ericsson of Sweden, i.e., never to be exposed in writing (File 296-A – GS-CAV Exhibit 258 to 323, see also Unprecedented Government Corruption).
- Espionage and spying, including the use of electronic surveillance equipment to gain an illegal advantage over litigants during court proceedings and private negotiations. See Chapter 4 – Government spying/Scandrett & Associates facsimile interception report, Open Letter File No/12 and File No/13.
- Unaddressed threats carried out by the Telstra Corporation against the COT Cases during their arbitrations. See Senate Evidence File No 31;
- Withholding important discovery documents in an arbitration procedure: Absent Justice Part 2 – Chapter 14 – Was it Legal or Illegal?
- Tampering with evidence in the arbitration: Tampering With Evidence).
- Relying on defence documents that are known to be flawed: Telstra’s Falsified SVT Report and Telstra's Falsified BCI Report.
- AUSTEL (for the government) concealed vital evidence from the arbitration process that would have won my case: AUSTEL’s Adverse Findings, at points 2 to 212.
- The arbitrator ordered the removal of vital evidence from two reports: Refer to Chapter 1 – The collusion continues and Chapter 2 – Inaccurate and Incomplete
- Organized crime via the Telstra network, ie: telephone calls and faxed documents intended for one business being redirect to another with the proceeds of that directed information earning the criminals involved millions of dollars in ill gotten gains Refer to Chapter 4 - Government spying and Australian Federal Police Investigations
- Lawyers employed by Telstra prepared to pervert the course of justice by signing a witness statement attesting it had been signed by the author when no signature was on the document at all. (Refer to (see File 596 AS-CAV Exhibits 589 to 647)
I have used the two Kangaroo Court links below because the author Shane Dowling is reporting on cases that even though I might not always agree with what is being written, people like Shane help balance the democratic way we in the West want to live free of bias (see https://rb.gy/0ybs5 and https://shorturl.at/jowL3)
The Ericsson List
Is there a link between the information in The Ericsson List, prepared by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) regarding Ericsson, the investigation into their questionable conduct on many levels concerning their international business ethics and the statement made by an ex-Australian senior public servant, a then sitting Australian Senator and nine of the COT Cases being interviewed on national television see YouTube video in Chapter 5 Bad Bureaucrats? Refer also to Chapter 8, Bribery Corruption Illicit Dealings.
