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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. 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, ...

5. Liquidating public property

   found that the government-owned company could not be privatised, minister for transport Laurie Brereton ... couldn't give it away, 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 ...

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

   reports that Brereton and Evans have been at odds ever since Brereton began the push last November for ... on East Timor 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 ...

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

   a report in the November 13 Australian Financial Review, Brereton is working on a secret brief from Prime ... the privatisation of 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 ...

10. Loose cannons

    they [banks] have made are actually contrary to the recommendations in our report." — Dr David ... — Headline of the Sydney Morning Herald article reporting that Rupert Murdoch's company had increased ... west." — Laurie Brereton, federal minister for large loud falling things, worrying about possible ...

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

    authorities." — Laurie Brereton, federal minister for falling things, on the public's outraged reaction to ... reported profits of $1.7 billion. Painless "Introducing fees is relatively painless providing there is ...

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!

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

16. Another waterfront conspiracy

    the documents describe a Labor cabinet meeting in September 1994. The June 29 Australian reported that ... relations minister Laurie Brereton and Kim Beazley were on it. Questioned about the claims by an ABC radio ... reporter on June 29, Beazley said he could not recall such discussions and "anyway", the ALP did ...

17. Why socialism is back on the agenda

    annual Human Development Report confirms, yet again, that capitalism has failed the majority of the ... report says that gross inequalities between rich and poor countries are worsening, with 20% of the ... water and sanitation", Lane told 91������̳ Weekly. According to the report, the combined wealth of ...

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

    Australian press reports, Brereton's visit was to help clarify Labor's position and to urge ... told reporters: "If the Labor Party is still going to take the view that it wants to politicise ... Woodside's public threat, Howard told reporters that Labor and government need to adopt a bi-partisan ...

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

    Distributive and Allied Employees Association with Brereton and himself. Some union officials reportedly ... Brereton, saying in parliament that wage rises paid for either by productivity gains or by workers sharing ... take away the process of wage leap-frogging." Brereton continued the theme, saying that the ...

20. Labor turnaround on East Timor?

    296 November 5, 1997 By Jon Land Labor foreign affairs spokesperson Laurie Brereton recently ... self-determination". According to a report in the October 18-19 Australian, the policy will state, "Labor will ...

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