A US Foreign Agents Registration Act filing shows our Morrison engaged the services of fmr US Navy Sec, Don Winter, to lay the groundwork for the 18 month #AUKUS study.
Winter seems to have been engaged by Morrison via Burdeshaw Assocs.
Burdeshaw have done well recently winning Aust Govt tenders and providing Sovereign Naval Shipbuilding advice to both Dept of Defence and PM&C.
The ABC in March this year reported that Winter was working as a special advisor to the PM.
Unclear whether the PM&C $1.5m contract to Burdeshaw relates to Winter's role as special adviser.
Winter had previously been the Chair of of the Aust Govt's National Shipbuilding Advisory Board...& prior chaired an oversight panel during the 2016 original submarine selection process.
Also appears that Don Winter held the position of US govt senior defence industry advisor back in 2019, under Donald Trump. At least that was his title was when he went to the Ukraine.
Obviously, there are close knit relationships between Aust & the US, and respective defence contractors/consultants and govt officials.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Well there you have it the $1.5m PM&C contract is to pay for Don Winter as his role as special advisor to the PM.
Appears he was on the same coin, when he was heading up the Naval Shipbuilding Advisory Board.... your taxpayers dollar at work here folks.
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I want to belatedly talk about a 14th anniversary which occurred in May.
Cast your minds back to late May 2010.
It was, I believe, the last time an Israeli diplomat was punted from Australia.
The Australian government run by the Labor Political Party (<hi ALP comms team, see what I did there) showed a bit of spine and actually expelled an Israeli diplomat.
Then Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, took that action when our bosom buddies Israel, stole the identities of 4 Australians and forged passports which were then used in the assassination of a Hamas operative.
A funny thing happened on the way to the anti-doxing forum....
Zionist lobby and WhatsApp groups have sought to silence journalists and artists who hold a pro-Palestinian viewpoint.
Albo and Dreyfo's reaction, rather than seeking to rein in the covert influence of these groups, is to rush through anti-doxing laws after the membership lists of said groups were leaked and published.
The Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) itself published a list of 2000 One Nation party members and 200 donors back in July 1998 - via their journal the Australia/Israel Review (the Review).
A few words about the early history of Australian journos and politicians going on junkets funded by various arms of the Israel lobby.
The v good article by @crikey_news in November 2023 (updated mid-Dec 2023) listed the names of various Australian journos and politicians who've gone on relatively recent "journalists' missions" and assorted "fellowships" to Israel
@crikey_news Reading the article I was struck by the many years and decades the Israel lobby has attempted to influence the Australian media and politicians.