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24 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I signed this petition (link fixed) re the ABC's reporting on 2nd Commando Regiment & alleged Afghan war crimes. The ABC should provide the evidence for its claims. I note @HestonRussell disputes the story & strangely he was not approached for an interview
aph.gov.au/e-petitions/pe…
There is a similar pattern to the 2 Commando allegations👆 here 👇 it would be, simply, absurd, for the ADF to give access to historians to materials in the Special Prosecutor's hands for Afghan war crimes trials & which if disclosed would prejudice trials
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
Many of these alleged Afghan War crimes occurred a decade (plus) ago. It is hard to understand why the OSI's prosecutions, if their cases are as strong as we have been told they are, have not been brought with more speed & particularity. A smear or allegation is not any proof etc
Military operations (from basic logistics movements to the most elaborate Special Forces mission) are planned, commenced, logged, tracked, periodically reported in, summarised, debriefed, etc. Exhaustive records are kept. Hard to believe how vague many of these allegations are.

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16 Nov
Attention: Lawyers (solicitor/attorney/barrister/advocat)
I am doing a Zoom this evening for aspiring Lawyers & have one question: what is one matter you know now that you wish you knew when you commenced? Mine is that lawyers praised as "very commerical" are usually bad at law.
So, legal beagles, please provide your "what I wish I had known" below .... the rule of law thanks you, etc
Otherwise it is me discussing how the law, generally, has never recovered from abolition of Privy Council appeals ... which is a position I would obviously maintain but yet I feel is of little urgent need for the youth.
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15 Nov
At the risk of repeating myself .... the whole point of Senators - yes, an "elected representative" - is to review & probe the activities of the executive government & its emanations, such as the ABC. Imagine saying this about the armed forces or the tax office?
The very same people who think the Crown & executive has no valid privileges to protect in respect of national security materials & operational matters also think the ABC has immunity from the review functions of the Senate. The country needs a massive civics lesson, it seems.
You: "Federal ICAC now - transparency in Government!"

Also you: "The Senate cannot review the ABC's internal processes while the ABC is conducting some review, too"
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14 Nov
Noted this from @FrenchHist - have thoughts. First would be Marshal Foch, who really did an incredible job in WW1 (Governing Socialists would originally not appoint Foch to higher command - even with the Germans at the gates of Paris - as Foch was a Catholic & a Monarchist) Image
My other thoughts were Turenne (who was French) and Marshal de Saxe (who was German but in French service). Charles Martel saved Europe and Charlemagne founded the modern idea of Europe. What of St Joan of Arc? What of the great engineer, Vauban?
Then there are the lesser known French worthies: the Marquis de Montalembert (both General and Sapper ... must have been exhausting company given the latter) and the Duke of Vendome ... and in more modern times, Marshal d'Esperey and Marshal Leclerc
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14 Nov
If the Senate (house of review) wants to inquire into the ABC (a statutory entity of the Crown) then that is our system working. It is entirely irrelevant that the ABC may be doing its own review. The Senate routinely investigates matters a Dept may also be examining internally.
If there were questions of propriety or governance in any Federal dept, say Defence or Foreign Affairs, no one would, seriously, say the Senate should not also investigate the matter, in addition to whatever the department is doing.
The Senate's constitutional role, inter alia, is to review the Executive Govt's activities. The best course for the ABC here - esp post the Milligan-related payments - is for the ABC to resist the temptation, which all Govt entities are prone to, to mark its own homework.
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8 Nov
Good morning, also, to all those stalwarts still celebrating @FountainPenDay today #fountainpenday The ink well was made from the timber of HMAS Sydney (1), which destroyed the German raider Emden in the Battle of the Cocos Islands in 1914.
To celebrate @FountainPenDay , I can say that all your years learning about gunnery, riflery and the like naval trades helped me repair my late mother's 1980s Dunhill fountain pen, which writes very well again. #fountainpenday
The then General Sir Bernard Montgomery would scribble notes away at various points, here signing a note of greeting in North Africa for visiting Chinese Generals to give to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek fighting the Japanese (which Mao did not fight ...) #fountainpenday
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7 Nov
New South Wales now at 94% first dose and 90% second dose. Now down to 244 local Covid cases. Well done to everyone who got vaccinated. A reminder that the noisy anti-vax people here represent a tiny minority.
As I was saying ...

Lockdowns could have been handled much better, esp in Victoria (which is simply just badly run as a State on all sides), but thanks to Perrottet's national leadership, Australia is slowly reopening, safely, and with a very low loss of life.
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