Yesterday @LiberalAus and @AustralianLabor teamed up to oppose saying sorry to the victims of war crimes committed by Australian SAS soldiers in #Afghanistan, and to oppose establishing a compensation scheme to support those families to rebuild their lives #AusPol
39 people - including children - lost their lives & 2 others suffered "cruel treatment" at the hands of Australian SAS soldiers. Families have been destroyed, communities torn apart & villages lie in ruin. Neither General Campbell or @ScottMorrisonMP are denying this happened.
The Brereton Inquiry report recommended that Australia should apologise to the victim's families and consider compensation, but all @ScottMorrisonMP has done so far is call Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and offer vague platitudes.
To the 41 families we know about that have been torn apart by the actions of Australian soldiers that phone call was meaningless; Australia must unreservedly apologise and create a compensation scheme to ensure they have the support they need to rebuild their lives.
I brought on for debate the issue of Australia’s response to the Brereton War Crimes Inquiry in @AuSenate - the response from both sides of the chamber was disappointing.
Politicians must be held to account for the decision to take part in the illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Military top brass must be held to account for accepting sanitised reporting, or for wilfully ignoring crimes that were taking place.
Perpetrators must be brought to justice and Australia must say sorry to the families of the victims, and ensure that they have the support needed to rebuild their lives #AusPol #AfghanInquiry

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7 Oct
Last night’s #budget2020 did not include a single cent of funding towards the establishment of a Federal anti-corruption commission, despite the Morrison government promising to establish one since December 2018 #AusPol
Just over a year ago the #Greens Federal ICAC passed the @AuSenate with only the Morrison government voting against it. If there was any desire to establish a Federal #ICAC from the Morrison government they would have brought our bill on for a vote, but they still haven’t #AusPol
In February of this year, the @AuSenate again voted to compekl the Morrison government to bring on our #ICAC bill for a vote in the House of Reps. Again, nothing happened #AusPol
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18 Jun
A motion put by Minister Cormann & Senator Wong today will dramatically limit the number of motions that can be put before the senate on any given day.

Let's be clear - this is the two major parties ganging up to GAG debate and expression by the crossbench in @auSenate #Auspol
Let me explain why motions are an important democratic function:

Motions allow us to put before the Senate matters that are important to the community and, especially, matters that members of the community may not otherwise be able to raise with elected representatives #AusPol
Motions also allow us to formally request documents from the government, known as an order for the production of documents. This GAG hampers our ability to scrutinise the government's actions by limiting the number of opportunities to formally request documents #AusPol
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13 Mar
Health Minister @GregHuntMP & NDIS Minister @stuartrobertmp must urgently convene a meeting of state & territory health & disability ministers, disability orgs & @NDIS to outline clearly what measures being taken to ensure that #pwd not disproportionately impacted by #COVID19
I am extremely concerned at the apparent failure of the government to properly include disabled people in its #COVID19 planning, leaving the disability community unnecessarily exposed #AusPol
There has been no coordinated approach from the federal government into the impact of #COVID19 on disabled people and, frankly, a disturbing attitude of buck-passing in the context of wider economic concerns #AusPol
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5 Mar
Talking first about the trial of a 'goal attainment framework' within the #NDIS - that is to ensure that participants 'life goals' are 'clear, realistic and measurable'

This is subjective. Participant's goals should be their business only #Estimates #Auspol
The addition of 'clear, realistic and measurable' is new to the #NDIS lexicon

How is the #NDIS going to measure someone's life goals with respect to relationships? Sex Ed? Etc

As a disabled person on the NDIS pathway this is very important to me, and to many others #estimates
Will there be any impact on participants funding if the NDIA determines a participant's goal is 'unclear', 'unrealistic' or 'unmeasurable'? This is EXTREMELY important #Estimates #Auspol
Read 15 tweets
7 Feb 19
1/ A word on the #AAbill and #encryption more broadly, as it has been flying around a bit today.

Let me be really clear: These powers have been used already - that is, encryption has been requested to be broken #Auspol
2/ This was disclosed by Dept of Home Affairs by citing their submission to the PJCIS, but we'll never know who. Anyone who wants to speak about it is risking jail time under the act #AAbill #encryption #Auspol
3/ It's Home Affairs, Peter Dutton and "we stopped the boats" all over again.

Did they? We'll never know. It's unprecedented new powers and an operational secret #AAbill #encryption #Auspol
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30 Jan 19
1/ Transparency International (@anticorruption) have just released their 'corruption perception index' rankings for the last year

It's a global rank of government corruption. We came 13th #Auspol #DemocracyForSale

theguardian.com/australia-news…
2/ Since 2012, we've slipped from 7th to 13th and to be honest, it's not actually that hard to see why...

#Auspol
3/ In that same time period (since 2012), @LiberalAus and @AustralianLabor have received more than $100 million from some of the biggest corporations in #Auspol (and the World!) through political donations, or other means - such as 'business forums'
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