Those claims are wrong. Political Adviser to Prime Minister JM Fraser, 1982-83. XANANA GUSMAO: My message is only an appeal. With a brand-new preface, this is the fascinating inside story of a man now set to play a pivotal role in our public life. ‘A clear-eyed treatise on how the coalition of the willing conned the public about its motives for war’ —Sydney ... Six years after vacating his position as the longest-serving premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr returned to politics in his dream job: as foreign minister of Australia and a senior federal cabinet minister. As a free speech advocate, I think Abbott is perfectly entitled to remain fully engaged in public political debate. When he appears in the ACT Supreme Court it will be for the first time as a defendant. The Australians reportedly said such a discussion would be “premature” and “damaging” to Australia’s relationship with Indonesia. II. On the core questions of our time – including our national security, our economic security, and our climate security – it is therefore the responsibility of every Australian citizen to engage as fully and freely as they can. Unbeknown to those who had taken the Timorese to heart, something very secretive was underway. Official visits to Indonesia, December 2004. Official visits to New Zealand, USA and Yugoslavia, June 1999. NATALIE BARR: Former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has slammed Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd over their criticism of Scott Morrison and his handling of the dumped French submarine deal.Mr Downer has accused the former PMs of mean spirited and bitter attempts at revenge in the wake of their own political failures. Industries: dairying, beef, sheep, apples, pears, cherries, smallgoods, Kanmantoo copper mines, Jupiter Creek goldfields, forestry, natural spring water, wine, cereals, tourism and the Woodside army barracks. These conservatives bemoan “cancel culture” but they have turned it into an art form. Official visits to Brazil, Mexico and USA, December 2005-January 2006. My view is different. Official visits to Papua New Guinea, April 2001. Alexander Downer still had control of the Twitter account of the Australian High Commissioner to the UK two weeks after he left the role - and used the official account to support his daughter Georgina's . ANTHONY WHEALY: I don't think they were designed for this sort of case at all. BERNARD COLLAERY: My papers and can I have my phone too.
STEVE CANNANE: Successive Australian governments have refused to confirm or deny that this spying operation took place. Official visits to Indonesia, December 2003. Diplomat Who Prompted FBI Trump Spying Helped Raise $25M ... The Downers of South Australia Cyprus Publications : Security Council Report STEVE CANNANE: Agents seized confidential legal documents including a copy of an affidavit by Witness K about the bugging. And many of them interfere with democratic rights and freedoms. Mayo was held for the Liberal Party by Alexander Downer from its creation in 1984 until his retirement in 2008. Because the focus is on it being presented for the administration of justice. The corollary of discovering Strzok's lie is that we don't presently know two of the most fundamental questions about the opening of Crossfire Hurricane: (1) what triggered Downer to report . The vote on 30 August 1999, in which 78.5% of East Timorese chose independence from Indonesia, was the culmination of 24 years of occupation by Jakarta and, before that, hundreds of years of colonial rule by Portugal. STEPHEN CHARLES QC, FORMER SUPREME COURT JUDGE: I was horrified. Abbott’s right to contribute to the national political discourse did not end when he lost his seat. STEVE CANNANE: BERNARD COLLAERY has worked with the Timorese in legal cases since the 1980s and has also been given clearance to represent members of the Australian intelligence community.
The political . A letter written by founding father Alexander Hamilton during the Revolutionary War and believed stolen decades ago from the Massachusetts state archives has been returned following a federal . And that 'as far as possible, any legal proceedings in this matter should be conducted in open court'. Official visits to Solomon Islands, May 2006. STEVE CANNANE: Former intelligence analyst Alan Dupont worked as an adviser for Jose Ramos Horta for ten years. JOHN HOWARD, PRIME MINISTER, 1996-2007 [in January 2006]: Well done, Alexander. Leader of the Opposition from 23.5.1994 to 30.1.1995. Official visits to Fiji and New Caledonia, December 1999. Because that's being shrouded in secrecy, it becomes much more secretive than a terrorist trial or something of that nature. Official visits to UK and Indonesia, September 2001. Official visits to Brunei and Malaysia, July-August 2002. With Alexander Downer, Georgina Downer, Pauline Hanson, Jane Prentice. I don't think they're designed for cases involving whistleblowers, journalists, or the lawyers for whistleblowers. Parliamentary Friendship Groups (non-country), House of Representatives chamber and business documents, Getting involved in Parliamentary Committees, Department of the House of Representatives. BRET WALKER: You won't be surprised to know that, by and large, parties are not allowed to ransack the files of the other party in any litigation, including international litigation. Worth at the time around $40 billion, the Australian end of the deal was designed to benefit Australian companies such as Woodside. He has been the Attorney General of the Australian Capital Territory. These historical and moral realities moved many Australians to assist their Timorese friends in the newly independent nation. STEVE CANNANE: Astonished by the raids and the seizure of its legal documents from Collarey's office, Timor-Leste rushed to the International Court of Justice accusing Australia of breaching lawyer-client privilege, and violating its rights and sovereignty under international law. Ed. The Party. We didn't". It's not what we know ... knew about Australia. Australian Diplomatic Service from 1976 to 1982. Every Australian, I imagine, is interested to know that Australian authorities will be held to account. Official visits to Philippines and Thailand, November 1999. "There is a legitimate public interest in knowing what is being tried...That's difficult to do if a trial, at the pointy end, will be held secretly." Hon. Collaery, a former ACT attorney-general, said he was “gratified and honoured” to win the award. ANDREW WILKIE: You know, it's way beyond time for a government to go back and revisit this, and to create effective whistleblower protections, so that insiders, including security insiders, if they are genuinely witness to misconduct, they can speak up. Official visits to Belgium and India, April 2002. // I would characterise it as being in a pre-police state. Official visits to Singapore, Indonesia, UK and Portugal, February-March 1999. Official visits to Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, South Africa and UK, April-May 2001. We wanted to put it in their face. Already there was bad blood after Australia had withdrawn from the International Court of Justice's jurisdiction resolving maritime boundaries. Philippa has a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Law, and a Masters in International Relations. Includes: Mayo includes the South Australian House of Assembly electorates of Finniss and Kavel, and parts of Davenport, Fisher, Hammond, Heysen, Morialta and Schubert. STEVE CANNANE: It was during a six month halt in negotiations that a team of ASIS agents arrived in Dili to install covert listening devices inside Timor-Leste's palace of government. Downer should be in prison. And I, for one, am not prepared to give them a blank check." Its new leaders faced the massive task of rebuilding the country. And I got served with a summons. I'm now able to speak to my lawyers, but I'm circumscribed even in what I can tell my own lawyers. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/30/infuriated-alexan... We always knew Alexander was a diplomat turd and nothing else... see : http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/4178, http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/34954, http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/34960, http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/34528, http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/6079. It's the sort of, behaviour, which, in an Australian court would be regarded as the most serious contempt, which would almost certainly lead to a lengthy jail term. (His predecessor, Gareth Evans, had wanted to visit Myanmar and meet her, but this had not proved possible.) Officers seize thousands of items related to news reports from 2017. BERNARD COLLAERY: I don't know what I'm going to be allowed to say in court. BERNARD COLLAERY: I was cooking a meal here one evening, and two police officers came to the door; I thought it was in relation to another case I was pursuing at the time. Downer’s deployment of this Murdochesque language on Sunday, followed by Barnaby Joyce the next day, suggests this strategy is migrating from the government’s media wing to its political wing. In A Bigger Picture, the bestselling political memoir of 2020, Malcolm Turnbull, Australia’s 29th prime minister, tells the remarkable story of his life. MATILDA WALL, LAW CLERK, COLLAERY LAWYERS: Good luck. Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs from 31.1.1995 to 11.3.1996. JUDGE: Good morning, please be seated.JOAQUIM DA FONSECA, REPRESENTATIVE OF TIMOR-LESTE [In January 2014]: It has caused deep offence and shock to my country. The Howard and Downer approach to China was markedly different to the early inclinations demonstrated by Bush. It appears likely her Liberal opponent this time will be Georgina Downer, whose father, Howard government Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, held the seat from 1984 to 2008. Officers from ASIO and the AFP were sent in to raid Collaery's home and office while he was out of the country. And if one quali https://johnmenadue.com/susan-connelly-the-other-swindled-partner/. Because Timor is really important to a lot of Australians, because we know we sold them out in 1975, we haven't paid the Second World War debt, and here we are in our name, in my name, Governments, Foreign Ministers, various ones would stoop so low as to spy on their negotiators, under the guise of a tax payer funded refurbishment. Much of that support continues, with Australians across the nation still determined never to forget the debt we owe. Alexander Downer on French holiday slammed for 'tone deaf and entitled' tweet about lockdowns 1.4k Views Angry Australians in lockdown have lashed out at the nation's former foreign minister after he posted a holiday snap from a luxury chateau in France while slamming tough Covid restrictions Down Under. They share a home state, SA, and a love of AFL. Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Austria, September 1995. The result was a 50/50 split of the Greater Sunrise oil and gas field, despite it lying on Timor’s side of half-way.
Sharkie's cause at the election was boosted by Liberal member Jamie Briggs' resignation from the junior ministry the previous December. ANDREW WILKIE, INDEPENDENT MP: Well, it's now been widely reported that sometime in 2004, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service bugged the East Timorese... in order to give Australia an unfair advantage during the treaty negotiations that were going on at that time. Alexander brings to life the stories of twelve ambitious leaders from the United States and Europe who helped shape the future of the museum world. They'd lost 31% of their population during the Indonesian occupation of Timor. Official visits to Papua New Guinea, August 2005. Birds and other wild life of the lake country of the Quetico-Superior, northwest of Lake Superior. The operation was illegal, unscrupulous and remains unresolved. Cabinet Minister from 11.3.1996 to 3.12.2007.
This book "is Sir Alick Downer's lively story of this well-known family since its first members arrived in South Australia in 1837"--Cover description. J Fraser, Prime Minister from 1982 to 1983. He was told to bug the office of the prime minister of one of our closest neighbours - the new nation of Timor-Leste, formerly known as East Timor. Mr Downer served as Australia foreign minister under John Howard from 1996 to 2007, holding office during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars as well as the Timor-Leste spying scandal. PROFESSOR CLINTON FERNANDES, INTERNATIONAL AND POLITICAL STUDIES, UNSW CANBERRA: Timor had just come out of a genocide, okay.
Brandis left office in December 2017 to become High Commissioner to London. The Timorese certainly hold him in high regard. Political Adviser to the Rt. “Dfat maritime Southeast Asia assistant secretary Neil Mules told [US embassy officer] on Aug 2 that these stories infuriated FM Downer, coming as they did at the end of what he considered to be a highly successful visit to East Timor and Jakarta,” it said. RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART - based on notes Watson kept through the four turbulent and exhausting years of Keating's Prime Ministership - is a frank, sympathetic and engrossing portrait of this brilliant and perplexing man, and a ... Official visits to Republic of Korea, February 2003. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “I’ve read kind of all the books on this subject . . . and this is the one you want to read.”—Rachel Maddow Before Ukraine, before impeachment: This is the never-before-told inside story of the high ... Special Adviser on Cyprus Alexander Downer briefed Council members in consultations on the status of the negotiations in Cyprus on 15 March. JOSE RAMOS HORTA: Because you are negotiating, and rules say you don't do these things. Official visits to Indonesia, March 2003. The resulting 14 policy memos are included in The Hamilton ProjectÕs Policies to Address Poverty in America. Official visits to Japan and China, November 2002. Introduction. And they carried it out––despicably––under the cover of an AusAid humanitarian project. MARI ALKATIRI, PRIME MINISTER, TIMOR-LESTE, 2002-2006 [In 2004]: For us, a twenty-year negotiation is not an option. Official visits to USA, Ireland, Switzerland, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and United Arab Emirates, January 2004. Official visits to East Timor, June 2006. STEVE CANNANE: At the first round of talks Timor-Leste's prime minister Mari Alkatiri came out swinging. The Australians then knew how far the Timorese would compromise, and whose opinions differed from the rest.
Some very powerful arguments were put on behalf of East Timor concerning the inappropriateness of that conduct by Australia. It is replayed on Tuesday 27th at 1.00pm and Wednesday 28th at 11.20pm. Biography Parliamentary service. STEVE CANNANE: Senator Rex Patrick and MP Andrew Wilkie are pushing for greater oversight of intelligence agencies and legal protection for whistleblowers. Downer, 54, is one of the world's longest serving foreign ministers, having been in office since the election of Prime Minister John Howard's government in 1996. On Sky News on Sunday, Alexander Downer said that by attacking Morrison, Turnbull looked mean spirited and bitter, and accused us both of "playing out an act of vengeance". They're not being charged with anything and they should be, and here we have two truth tellers who are now being charged. This is the first of his in-depth analyses. Official visits to East Timor, September 2006. It won’t. 8.30pm - The Foreign Minister in the Howard government, Alexander Downer, has been awarded an Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours list. I think that for far too long, there has been this notion that, very few people will decide what's good for us to know, and what's good for us not to know. Official visits to Singapore and Vietnam, July 2003. And then the direct order to Witness K would come from the director-general of ASIS, David Irvine. It is despicable.
That's difficult to do if a trial, at the pointy end, will be held secretly. ACTOR'S VOICE: Witness K alleged he had been constructively dismissed from ASIS, as a result of a new culture within ASIS. Why has AG Barr enlisted Italy and Australia to review the ... Exploring Human Geography: A Reader Director of the Australian Chamber of Commerce (ACT) from 1983 to 1984. But being the most vocal US ally in Asia gave Howard and Downer a certain freedom in dealing with China. Official visits to China, North Korea and Hong Kong, August 2004. STEVE CANAANE: And what kind of evidence would you give? XANANA GUSMAO, PRIME MINISTER OF TIMOR-LESTE, 2007-12: I sent a letter to her and she said, "No, we didn't. STEPHEN CHARLES: It was seriously humiliating and an indication of what each of the judges who voted in favour of imposing those orders on Australia thought about Australia's conduct.
This, of course, is a transparent effort to shield Morrison from pointed criticism, particularly from his own side, ahead of the next federal election. “It says something that Britain has to stretch out and it demonstrates that the Australian government is now under further international scrutiny,” he told AAP on Thursday. The Rome-based agent then forwarded those reports to the FBI's New York field office in early July 2016, but the reports didn't make their way to the Washington-based FBI officials . STEVE CANNANE: Peter Galbraith, a former US Ambassador was Timor-Leste's lead negotiator in the talks. So, you know, I tend to understand where the intelligence agency is coming from me and the need to protect these confidentialities because if you have everybody going out and saying, 'well, I don't agree with something', and disclosing privileged information, then you don't have an intelligence service. BRET WALKER: is a legitimate public interest in knowing what is being tried, and what are the arguments that are being deployed for and against the conviction of a person in this position. Official visits to Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Laos and Vietnam, June-July 1997. I saw with my own eyes, the destruction of Timor and I have seen the Australian government's assessment of the infrastructure destruction. As does his son Jesse @Jesse_onya_m8.
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