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Defense Force hierarchy are ganging up on soldiers with inquiries like Brereton02/02/2021|10min
Former President of Army Families Dr Kay Danes says defense personnel are met with “adversarial defense legal resources” through the defense inquiries.
“If you’ve ever been exposed to a defense inquiry, they make the most seemingly simple cases into complex cases,” she told Sky News host Alan Jones.
“It goes up through the chain of command and they’re met with this wall of adversarial legal defense resources and it’s a real David and Goliath match.”
Dr Danes said defense inquiries often have the outcome of the Brereton Report even when they are about workplace complaints.
DEFENCE families have been turned away from a forum dedicated to a veteran suicide crisis and other underlying issues, as Jacqui Lambie s information sessions turn into a fiasco. The families were shut-out of the meeting at the Townsville RSL and were told there would be other opportunities to meet with Senator Lambie, Federal MP Bob Katter and Voice of Veteran founder Heston Russell. The RSL forum was meant to be open to all veterans and families, Mr Russell said. I got contacted by a number of veterans that they were not allowed to come to the RSL because the President said it was only those he approved.
A western woman working in an Islamic Afghanistan
Dr Schmeidl conducted research as a woman in a very male-dominated country.
Afghanistan is an Islamic nation mired in conflict and war.
The Taliban – an Islamic hardline group that ruled most of the country from 1996 to 2001 – imposed strict Sharia Law, taking away women’s rights to work and get an education.
Public lashings for not wearing a full-body burqa, and the amputation of hands and feet for petty crimes became common.
Dr Schmeidl says she visited Afghanistan briefly under Taliban rule in 2000, then returned to resume her fieldwork in 2002.
By that time, the Taliban had been toppled – to deny Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and operatives a safe haven – by a US-led coalition acting in retaliation for the deaths of more than 3000 people in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Australian workers and youth demand freedom for Julian Assange
There is substantial opposition to the ongoing imprisonment of Julian Assange in London’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison, after Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled against his extradition to the US at the beginning of the year.
The British verdict was narrowly based on Assange’s acute health issues, resulting from his decade-long persecution, and the oppressive nature of the US prison system. Baraitser upheld all of the anti-democratic arguments of US prosecutors, which aim to criminalise any journalism based on “national security” disclosures. The US Justice Department is appealing the judgement, as it continues the campaign to extradite Assange for exposing American war crimes, human rights violations and diplomatic conspiracies.