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1. Australian War Memorial: from keeper of the flame to hider of shame?

   been war-gaming public messaging options since last October. The Brereton report is tightly held by ... Commission and the cluster bomb evidence that Justice Brereton will soon detonate to end his four-year ...

2. Exporting weapons is a clear and present danger

   completely outside of the commercial circle of interests. In light of the Brereton report into Australian war ... expertise officially — and unofficially — end up. A ABC 7.30 Report revealed one contract, announced by ... arms and everybody knows it. Australia used to send an annual arms report to the Stockholm ...

3. A step forward over war crimes in Afghanistan

   the Inspector-General of the ADF under New South Wales Justice Paul Brereton, has been due to report ... that, serious criminal charges against ABC investigative journalist Dan Oakes, who reported leaked ... a role. The fact that the ABC refused to be bullied, left The Afghan Files online, and continued to report ...

4. Liquidating public property

   government-owned company could not be privatised, minister for transport Laurie Brereton is looking at ANL's ... that's the reality... it's a pretty dismal picture", Brereton said. The government had expected ... to sell ANL for around $150 million. Brereton sacked the board of directors and appointed a new ...

5. Afghan activist: ‘Foreign troops must leave Afghanistan’

   Brereton report on war crimes, we believe that because war crimes are committed not only by individuals, ... According to media reports, more than US$120 billion was given in the form of “humanitarian aid” to ... A governor post is more important than a police chief. This is despite reports of his crimes. For example, ...

6. Australian SAS atrocities in Afghanistan are part of a bigger war crime

   painstaking research by a special investigation team. Since the first series of reports were published in 2017 ... reported the atrocities to their superior officers, but to no avail. Where internal Australian Defence ... broke the law and whether it was my duty as a lawyer to report that fact.” For the past four years, the ...

7. Labor and Liberal: false friends of East Timor

   colleagues on the human rights issues" in East Timor. There have been reports that Brereton and Evans ... and relations with the Suharto dictatorship. Media reports on February 5 quoted comments made by ... Labor's foreign affairs spokesperson Laurie Brereton, made at a meeting of the Queensland branch of the ...

8. Maritime union agrees to ANL's part-privatisation

   minister Laurie Brereton announced the government had sold its 25% share in Australian Stevedores, the most ... September 13. According to Brereton, "The decision to allow an open tender process [for the sale of ... Donovan said this was preferable to Brereton doing it. The MUA is seeking to invest superannuation funds ...

9. Telecom privatisation

   Telecom. One of Labor's "mates", Laurie Brereton — formerly a minister in the NSW Labor ... government — is reportedly sniffing around big financial institutions for advice on how to flog off Telecom ... — that has been the hallmark of the Hawke-Keating Labor dynasty. According to a report in the November 13 ...

10. Loose cannons

    made are actually contrary to the recommendations in our report." — Dr David Cousins, head of the ... Sydney Morning Herald article reporting that Rupert Murdoch's company had increased its profits to ... has already permeated the attitude of many locals in Sydney's west." — Laurie Brereton ...

11. ACTU firms links to fake union

    of the Australian Chamber of Commerce, Brian Noakes. On November 29, it was reported that Brereton ... a week-long visit by Ferguson, federal industrial relations minister Laurie Brereton and the director general ...

12. Loose cannons

    Brereton, federal minister for falling things, on the public's outraged reaction to the noise from ... — Don Argus, managing director of the National Australia Bank, which has just reported profits of $1.7 ...

13. ACTU congress finds no answer to dwindling membership

    Bill Kelty reported that the ACTU had resolved to sell one of its buildings and reduce its staff ... reports on the floor of the congress. The plenary sessions consisted of non-voting reports and resolutions ... government". Laurie Brereton, the federal industrial relations minister, spoke on the last day, focusing on all ...

14. WEST PAPUA: ALP, Liberals oppose independence

    council is expected to report back on the struggle for world recognition of the sovereignty of the West ... the risk of further conflict and violence". Recently, Laurie Brereton, Labor's foreign ... Brereton attacked Sword and others for expressing views on West Papua which are "inconsistent with ...

15. Free East Timor!

    Brereton, on May 24 attacked foreign minister Alexander Downer for his "mealy mouthed failure" to ... of Downer, but what term should we apply to Brereton's Labor colleagues in the Senate, who two ... self-determination. What's going on? As in the case of Brereton's remark, it's an attempt to conceal ...

16. Another waterfront conspiracy

    describe a Labor cabinet meeting in September 1994. The June 29 Australian reported that at that meeting, ... — to deal with maritime industry issues. PM Paul Keating, industrial relations minister Laurie Brereton ... and Kim Beazley were on it. Questioned about the claims by an ABC radio reporter on June 29, Beazley ...

17. Why socialism is back on the agenda

    Development Report confirms, yet again, that capitalism has failed the majority of the world's ... people", said Max Lane, the foreign affairs spokesperson for the Democratic Socialists. The report says ... and sanitation", Lane told 91������̳ Weekly. According to the report, the combined wealth of the ...

18. EAST TIMOR: Canberra threats to cancel Timor Sea talks

    former shadow minister for foreign affairs, Laurie Brereton. According to Australian press reports ... Responding to Latham's comments, Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer told reporters: "If ... reporters that Labor and government need to adopt a bi-partisan approach to defend Australia's ...

19. Transport workers campaign: Time for a wages catch-up!

    Association with Brereton and himself. Some union officials reportedly claimed that employers were prepared to ... Paul Keating and industrial relations minister Laurie Brereton, saying in parliament that wage rises ... leap-frogging." Brereton continued the theme, saying that the Industrial Relations Reform Act had separated ...

20. Labor turnaround on East Timor?

    By Jon Land Labor foreign affairs spokesperson Laurie Brereton recently announced a proposed new ... According to a report in the October 18-19 Australian, the policy will state, "Labor will lend every ...

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