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1. buongiorno a tutti,udienza al Tribunale di #Canberra sul mio #FOIA è terminata stanotte intorno alle 4.40 ora italiana.Sono rappresentata dagli avvocati australiani @BarnsGreg
e @peterbolam
e @peterbolam
2. il dovere di un giornalista,soprattutto d'inchiesta, come sono io è cercare i FATTI e ricostruirli in modo rigoroso come un teorema di matematica, il #FOIA è uno dei pochi strumenti che abbiamo per cercarli
3. senza i FATTI, ricostruiti in modo rigoroso,brancoliamo nel buio e il Potere può manipolarci come vuole: per questo da 7 anni mi batto in UK,USA,Australia,Svezia per difendere il diritto della stampa di accedere a tutta la documentazione sul caso Julian #Assange e #WikiLeaks
A murdered journalist, after five were murdered 2 months before, attracted little media attention - with the post-coup election on in Australia in 1975 & the US wanting us to ignore the #Timor invasion. We mostly complied - only his family, friends, & colleagues to bat away. ../2 
No #DFAT investigation, no #AFP witness statements, no government interest, but just words. Our government maintained the Indonesians cover story that he’d fled to the hills - despite knowing he was summarily shot in public in front of dozens of living witnesses in December 8.
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I interviewed still distraught eyewitnesses in 1995 for a SMH article. The killers lived prosperous careers, retired to a genteel life in Java, doting on their grandkids, occasionally telling old war stories but only to old war mates. …/3
1. Secret trials in 🇦🇺? Surely not. Expunging the convicted's name from public record? It couldn't happen here could it?
READ ON... It happened to @WitnessJ8
"Who is Canberra’s mysterious ‘secret prisoner’?" By Robert Macklin
#Auspol @OZloop #WintessJ
citynews.com.au/2019/who-is-ca…
READ ON... It happened to @WitnessJ8
"Who is Canberra’s mysterious ‘secret prisoner’?" By Robert Macklin
#Auspol @OZloop #WintessJ
citynews.com.au/2019/who-is-ca…
2. Author ROBERT MACKLIN finds himself drawn into murky, security intrigue as Canberra’s “secret prisoner”, an Australian soldier stripped by the government of his real name, takes on the Alexander Maconochie Centre in court. Who is this man and what is his story?
#WitnessJ
#WitnessJ
3. THERE is no end to the cost of war. The battlefield casualties grab the headlines, but so many of its crises take place behind the darkened shutters of our hospitals and, occasionally, our courtrooms.
One occurred in Canberra’s Supreme Court 4 last Friday (November 8).
One occurred in Canberra’s Supreme Court 4 last Friday (November 8).
