Posted: September 21st, 2011 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: My highlights | Tags: Defence, Immigration, Tenders, The Canberra Times | No Comments »
Defence losing out in asylum camp fight
By Bianca Hall and Edmund Tadros
Senior Defence brass opposed the Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s bid to use the remote Scherger RAAF base as a detention centre, documents released under freedom of information show.
19 Sep, 2011: ADF refugee role attacked
By Bianca Hall and Edmund Tadros
The Federal Government is improperly using the Defence Department to support its refugee policies, the Australian Defence Association says.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship has entered into contracts worth at least $176million since 2010 – including $35million with Defence - to prepare and operate the Curtin and Scherger remote RAAF bases as detention centres
12 Sep, 2011: Border security’s real cost
By Edmund Tadros and Bianca Hall
Detention centre operators, an international training company, a NSW Government department and a multinational IT firm are the big winners from the Federal Government’s immigration policies.
An analysis of tender data by The Canberra Times has identified, for the first time, the companies that have won the most lucrative contracts from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship since 2008.
Posted: June 18th, 2011 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: Freedom of information, My highlights | Tags: Defence, Freedom-of-Information, The Canberra Times | No Comments »
By Edmund Tadros and Markus Mannheim
Australia’s military university has filed at least 29 formal reports of alleged sexual offences over the past decade, including claims a female cadet was king-hit and raped while unconscious.
But the records, obtained under freedom of information law, may represent a mere fraction of all reported assaults at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
One colonel warned the school’s commandant, Commodore Bruce Kafer, in April that its archives were ”patchy” about incidents before 2009 and could not be relied on as a full account of the academy’s troubled history.
Read more about ADFA at The Canberra Times.
Posted: April 2nd, 2011 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: My highlights | Comments Off
ADFA’s decade of sex claims
Australia’s military university has filed at least 29 formal reports of alleged sexual offences over the past decade, including claims a female cadet was king-hit and raped while unconscious.
But the records, obtained under freedom of information law, may represent a mere fraction of all reported assaults at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
APEC 2007 – Truth revealed by Freedom-of-Infomation
 Activist ‘Paddy’ Gibson lands payout after APEC arrest
POLICE made a secret payment to an activist wrongly arrested during the 2007 Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit and then used this payout as an excuse to stop an internal investigation into the arrest, documents released under Freedom of Information laws reveal.
NSW Police made the payment to activist Padriac “Paddy” Gibson after he launched a civil case over his illegal arrest and detention after the major anti-APEC rally in September, 2007.
 The APEC wall that couldn’t keep The Chaser out cost $2m
THE steel and concrete fence that became a symbol of the 2007 Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation summit cost an amazing $2 million to hire for seven days, documents released under Freedom of Information laws reveal.
The “Great Wall of Sydney” – which left police and the NSW Government red-faced after it was breached by The Chaser comedy team during APEC – infuriated locals and tourists by caging off the Sydney Opera House and sections of the CBD. |
Prison Guards rob and bully: FoI report
NSW Police, a big group of teenagers and the ensuing riot
Universities violate privacy laws
Bashings, robberies rife at city stations
Hidden truth of joyflight crash pilot
Posted: April 2nd, 2011 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: My highlights | Comments Off
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