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Sep 30, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Thread: Today I want to talk about remarkable coincidences. #AUKUS

I decided to look up the Australian Govt's Submarine Advisory Committee. It was active once so I thought I see if it still was.

Yep it is active and new members were appointed in May 2021....strange.

#aukus
Strange that I didn't see a press release about these appointments.

Even stranger when last time around some members were getting $600+K to sit on it.

But there it is, govt directory 👇 says SAC had 3 good folks recently appointed to it.

directory.gov.au/portfolios/def…
I decided to check out Kirkland H Donald's CV given the previous $600+K contract was given to him.

I assume the recent SAC listing is a transcription error - but who knows.

Anyway Kirkland H Donald is Chair of the Board at
Huntington Ingalls Industries.
By now you're thinking it might be time for another coincidence, so I'll play along and give you one.

You see Huntington Ingalls also has a division in Newport News Shipbuilding....they build naval ships....and naval submarines.

Virginia class submarines, no less.
They'd be one of the same submarine classes that are under active consideration by the Australian govt for their #AUKUS pandering.

politico.com/news/2021/09/2…
Anyway it's such a small and coincidental world.

Just be happy we are getting super quiet nuclear submarines...at some point.

And we are in a "forever partnership".

All good.

But anyway what are you gonna do?

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THREAD: THE NACC'S $32M BUNGLE

The #NACC was significantly non-compliant with the Govt's finance laws, erroneously reporting construction contracts worth $32.7m as being valued at $666,050.
The $32.7m construction projects represented almost third of the NACC's total resourcing for 2023-24.
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THREAD:

NACC Governance - Do as I say, not as I do

Let's cut to the chase, the NACC Commissioner approved the conflict of interest (COI) guidelines and the requisite COI Form and then ignored the very process he had approved and did not lodge a formal COI Form.

#Leadership
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A key component of the NSAP terms of ref are the COI process. That process is outlined below.

One can't quibble about them......the word "must" does heavy lifting, as it should...especially in relation to the use of the Form to record a COI.

A process Brereton did not follow. Image
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Oct 17
THREAD

An FOI thread about nothing.

Starring: PM, PMC, Min for Home Affairs, Dept of Home Affairs.

Cameo: Jillian Segal

Still on the casting couch: Transparency
With much fanfare and a blaze of publicity the appointment of Jillian Segal as the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism (ASECA) was announced on 9 July.

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Sep 26
THREAD

Just wanted to provide an update on the F-35 jet fighter, obviously a lot of focus on Australia's involvement in the global supply chain/production of the jet fighter.
I've seen a few diagrams most notably this one from 2018, sourced from the Department of Defence's document: F35: AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION THE JOURNEY TO $1 BILLION Image
The Department of Defence also provide an occasional F-35 Fast Facts update and the most recent one being "September/October 2023" - note timing.

The update contains a new version of the diagram.
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Sep 24
THREAD:

WILL THE LAST NON-CONFLICTED NACCSTER TURN OFF THE #ROBODEBT LIGHT

Aside from #NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton, at least one other Senior Commission Staff (very likely a Deputy Commissioner) also had a conflict of interest.
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Jul 9
THREAD:

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.
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