"All along, it’s been about a grab for oil and gas". @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on Howard & Downer's Timor spying lies and the long battle to find the truth #auspol michaelwest.com.au/howard-downe... - ThreadSky

michaelwestbiz.bsky.social • 104 days ago

"All along, it’s been about a grab for oil and gas". @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on Howard & Downer's Timor spying lies and the long battle to find the truth
#auspol
https://michaelwest.com.au/howard-downer-timor-lies-revealed/

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unionrabble.bsky.social•104 days ago

IPA/LNP disgraced our nation. But then that’s nothing new

wtgator.bsky.social•104 days ago

I detest John Howard. Always have, always will.

wooferunleashed.bsky.social•104 days ago

I fully support your statement and would like to add the stocking & high heel wearing idiot Alexander Downer to it.

guildnavigatorix.bsky.social•103 days ago

Downer & Howard should be in prison #auspol

cameronphilips.bsky.social•104 days ago

What a stain on our nation’s soul.

mousemc.bsky.social•104 days ago

TBH this was a disgrace but not unlike the entire western nations. Just go thru and view crown jewels etc..this is all off the back of ripping off and apart nations for their resources. Our entire history and wealth is 'stolen'

20244202.bsky.social•104 days ago

These were two very greedy, grubby grifters. . . Plus they got away with it.
And the good bloke who tried to warn everybody about Howard and Downer’s duplicity, is in prison. . . (Thanks to that well known Netanyahu boot-licker, Dreyfus.)

dietervallois.bsky.social•104 days ago

Ooooh, oooh, I wonder if the #NACC could look at this 😳

brendamagpie.bsky.social•104 days ago

It is about a rich, developed country taking advantage of our nearest neighbour. A neighbour who was traumatised from decades of conflict, who has a 'hungry season' every year, whose development has been patchy at best.
It was immoral.

peggysanders.bsky.social•103 days ago

Moral disengagement started with John Howard- shameful legacy. “The actions of the Howard Government resulted in strong shift towards blind compliance to Ministers and, with that, the corrosion of the of the notion of whole of government and its public service serving the Australian people.” ➡️

peggysanders.bsky.social•103 days ago

https://theaimn.net/the-morrison-government-a-textbook-case-of-rampant-moral-disengagement/

peggysanders.bsky.social•104 days ago

“2004 spying on new Timorese government’s sea boundary negotiating team, defrauding Timor benefit of Woodside, Labor Govt refusal support Timor-Leste’s plans in favour of schemes that would maximise Australia’s exploitation of gas reserves for the benefit of Japanese and Korean industry.”

peggysanders.bsky.social•104 days ago

“The international community overwhelmed the Australian Government’s loyalty to the oil and gas companies), the Indonesian military, the TNI, opposed independence. They were worried about other ‘independence’’ trouble spots in Irian Jaya, Aceh, Ambon and Kalimantan.”

peggysanders.bsky.social•104 days ago

“Official history embroiled in controversy, resulting exchanges between Stockings & DFAT 2019, with DFAT seeking to censor the document. Francis Adamson, DFAT now SA Governor, wrote Prof Stockings warning that an “honest history” of Australia’s peacekeeping role in Timor would touch “raw nerves”.”

peggysanders.bsky.social•104 days ago

“2015 Aust Govt commissioned War Memorial to write an official history peacekeeping operations East Timor. UNSW history professor Craig Stockings engaged War Memorial’s official historian spending 2 yrs writing Vol 1. 3 us to be cleared for publication by Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).”

peggysanders.bsky.social•104 days ago

“The Government commissioned an official history of our operations in Timor and then censored the historian, removing an entire chapter. The partially redacted chapter obtained by MWM confirms lies told by the Howard Government. Rex Patrick reports.”

dougal-kat-wilson.bsky.social•103 days ago

Is this photo from when Lord Twat and the Crypt-Dweller were try to form a Liberal Party boy band in the 1990's?

jotaman.bsky.social•104 days ago

Great work by the team as always Michael.
What a tawdry stain on the Australian peoples.

carrieonbaggage.bsky.social•104 days ago

Utterly shameful.

wallacenadia.bsky.social•103 days ago

It’s them

maisiemontnruby.bsky.social•104 days ago

Pretty much a description of "international relations"

Big country wants assets of small country
Big country aquires assets belonging to small country
Methods differ
War, sanctions, threats, coercion, subterfuge etc
Except Australia, of course we just give our assets away to foreign multinationals

solardirectory.bsky.social•104 days ago

They both think they're so prim and proper, beyond reproach.

edtrainsociety.bsky.social•103 days ago

The whiffy pro Putin-Trump Zero Hedge published an article supporting Downer's dissembling vs FBI since that infamous gin tonic in London with Trump-Russia operator Papadoupolos on stolen DNC emails that landed with Assange via Farage? Parallel universe? #auspol

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/alexander-downer-exposes-fbis-deceit-opening-russia-investigation

edtrainsociety.bsky.social•103 days ago

Downer, Turnbull, Trump and a poke in the Five Eyes

"What he did would have got any other ambassador sacked. It was reckless and self-indulgent and put the Australian government in a very awkward position." Turnbull

#auspol

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/downer-turnbull-trump-poke-five-eyes

croweater.bsky.social•104 days ago

I wouldn't have thought anyone would be suprised by the actions of one of the cruelist governments in our history.

gee2024.bsky.social•104 days ago

Here Hamish,start your new ho him career on this….story the works been fine for you…@abcnews

gee2024.bsky.social•104 days ago

*done for you

spacebar-music.bsky.social•102 days ago

Our great shame: swindling a vulnerable neighbour out of its resources.
And compounding the shame, by prosecuting the whistle-blowers, Witness K & Bernard Collaery.

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